Who Invented The Radio?

Nikola Tesla, a Croatian scientist and inventor, is the inventor of the radio. An Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, was earlier credited with the title but new facts reveal that it is not true. There is credible evidence which suggests that Nikola Tesla was first to patent ‘radio technology’.

James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist, predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves in 1860s. He also gave four equations, famous as Maxwell’s equations, which predict the behavior of electromagnetic waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves too. In 1886, a German physicist, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, showed how radio waves could be generated and propagated in space by making electric current vibrate rapidly. This gave rise to ‘wireless telegraphy’, which can be considered as the predecessor of the radio.

In 1895, Marconi publicly demonstrated how to send and receive signals via a radio set. By the year 1899 he had developed the technology enough to send radio signals across the English Channel. Two years later, the first transatlantic signal was sent across. The improvements continued and today there are more than 44,000 radio stations in the world, which broadcast in almost every human language. There are radio stations like the BBC (British Broadcasting Cooperation), CRI (China Radio International) or Deutsche Welle (Germany) which are nearly global in their coverage and audiences.

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