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06 November 2015

Who Invented Radio? Marconi VS Tesla

The idea that Tesla was 'the true inventor of radio' is widespread. However, radio communication is one of those collective works, developed with the contribution of many scientists and engineers: from those who experimentally discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism (Ørsted, Ampère, Henry and Faraday), through the one that unified both phenomena with his theory of electromagnetism (Maxwell) or by which he achieved the first transmission of electromagnetic waves (Hertz, in 1887). Marconi VS Tesla. The idea that Tesla was 'the true inventor of radio' is widespread, but who invented the radio? Do you have a minute?