What is Loomis Day?
Every year on May 30th, Loomis Day honors the man who received the patent for wireless telegraphy in 1872. Mahlon Loomis, a dentist from Washington, D.C., was granted a US patent number 129,971 titled An Advance in Telegraphing on wireless telegraphy in July of 1872, beating Guglielmo Marconi's United Kingdom patent by nearly 25 years.
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Loomis, born on July 21, 1826, was both the designer of artificial teeth and one of the first wireless communication pioneers. Loomis died on October 13, 1886, 1886.
Loomis conducted several experiments in electricity using kites flying miles apart in the mountains of Virginia, leading up to his patent. He demonstrated his wireless telegraphic device in 1868, before many scientists and congressmen, before many scientists and congressmen. Although he couldn't explain how he was able to produce the transmission, he appealed to Congress for an authorization to use the Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company for study. Senator Charles Sumner introduced the bill on May 30, 1872, and the Committee on Commerce reported poorly on the measure on May 30, 1872. It eventually became a bill of incorporation in 1873, after being stripped of its appropriations.
