Who Invented Radio: Guglielmo Marconi or Aleksandr Popov?
Who Invented Radio: Guglielmo Marconi or Aleksandr Popov? Popov may have been first but he didn’t patent his inventions or try to commercialize them By Allison Marsh Photo: A.S. Popov Central Museum of CommunicationsIn 1895, Russian physicist Aleksandr Popov used his lightning detector to demonstrate the transmission of radio waves. Who invented radio? Your answer probably depends on where you’re from. On 7 May 1945, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow was […]
