Guglielmo Marconi

[IndependentBear]

PernatyZmey - few inventions were he work of one man. Marconi did two things - 1) Devoted years to improving the existing instruments to make long distances possible, and 2) formed a company that made that technology available to common people. Both are critical for the success of any "invention". History is littered with brilliant people who failed in the latter. An invention in the laboratory is of interest only to those in the laboratory.

[PernatyZmey]

He stole the invention from Alexander Popov.

[Ldighera]

@PernatyZmey

It is unfortunate that Popov failed to make his 'invention' available to the general public. 

Of course many others were successful in wireless long before Popov and Marconi: Mahlon Loomis (1858), Francesco Sponzilli(1857). Johann Philipp Reis (1859). David Edward Hughes (1879). Amos E. Dolbear (1882), Heinrich (Rudolph) Hertz (1887). Nicola Tesla (1889), Henry Jackson (1890), Thomas Edison (1891). Alexander S. Popov (1892). Jagadish Chandra Bose (1894) ...

[Caleidus]

@Ldighera The inventors you mentioned were only capable to send signals within laboratory walls distance.

The invention of radio means only one thing: long distance radiotransmission, and Marconi was the first one capable of doing it.

[Ldighera]

@Caleidus

Thank you for your comment. I agree, that distance was paramount in the develpment of wireless telegraphy, and Marconi forged the tools to span the Atlantic in 1901!. The fartheist transmission the others I mentioned was less than twenty miles, but that was forty years before GM's Atlantic triumph (and obviously not confined to a labratory). 

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"If I have seen a little farther than others,

it's because I stood on the shoulders of giants."

-- Sir Isaac Newton

[silvan500]

Good