A century ago, on June 3, 1898, Scottish scientist W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) visited Italian-
born British entrepreneur G. Marconi at his experimental wireless telegraph station in
southern England. On that occasion, Lord Kelvin asked Marconi to send a message via his
wireless telegraph; Lord Kelvin insisted on paying for this service, which, in his own words,
was destined to become the first commercial wireless telegram, later known as a
Marconigram. Later, wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony came to be known as radio.

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early theoretical work of Maxwell, Hertz, and other theorists and the practical contributions
by Tesla, Marconi, and countless other innovators. Our cover depicts the 1898 Marconi
detector as well as today’s mobile-radio applications, which are discussed extensively. …