Abstract
The modern radio system is not one invention; it is made up of the work of many inventors. Its origins lie in the work of nineteenth-century scientists, and especially Maxwell and Hertz. Radio telegraphy was its precursor; Marconi made the greatest single contribution to its practical realisation, though many other scientists and inventors, such as Lodge, Branly, Tesla and Stone, made inventions essential to its development.
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© 1969 John Jewkes, David Sawers and Richard Stillerman
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Jewkes, J., Sawers, D., Stillerman, R. (1969). Radio. In: The Sources of Invention. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00015-9_39
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