What is World Radio Day?
Every year on February 13th, World Radio Day honors radio as the world's largest mass media. The day also acknowledges the importance of radio to promote diversity and create a more inclusive world.
Marconi vs tesla
Over the years, there has been a lot of discussion over who the radio's designer really is. Guglielmo Marconi and Nikolai Tesla are two men at the center of the controversy. Marconi is known for his wireless telegraphy experiments and his 1896 patent for wireless telegraphy in England. Marconi Wireless Telegraph Ltd was established by Marconi Wireless Telegraph Ltd, which also carried the first signals across the Atlantic Ocean. Tesla first demonstrated a wireless radio in 1893 and obtained his patent in the United States in 1900.
Marconi finally succeed in obtaining a patent in the United States in 1904, which is part of the reason for the so much discussion. However, the US Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favour of Tesla. Tesla never lived to hear the verdict, though. He died just a few months before.
