McMacHack t1_ja5fr6n wrote
Reply to comment by ItDoesntMatter59 in TIL of David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and NBC who suppressed and then stole FM radio and Television from their inventors, driving one to suicide and the other to alcoholism. by Dega704
Guglielmo Marconi is credited as the inventor of the Radio but Nicola Tesla created a working prototype years earlier but never patented it as it was just one part of a larger project he was working on. Marconi actually used some of Tesla's designs directly in his radio. So Nicola Tesla invented a "radio" used as prototype in his wireless power transmission experiment in 1893 while Marconi patented and presented his radio in 1895. Even though it was Tesla's designs and concept, one could argue that Marconi delivered the radio as an actual concept by using it to transmit and receive telegraphs.
nullcharstring t1_ja6jlgy wrote
Heinrich Hertz and James Clerk Maxwell worked out the foundational theory before either of them demonstrated their inventions.
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