Radio, the greatest patented invention of all time. Whilst it is
Tesla who is credited with the first US patent, number 6451576,
it was Marconi who is best known and the most commercially
successful; inventing his wireless telegraph machine based on
its principles. Radio has transformed our world, benefiting
humanity in so many different ways. It was arguably a catalyst
for some of the biggest technological advances in the 20th
century; television, radar and mobile phones. Radio has widened
our scientific horizons, giving us the tools to search for life
outside of our solar system. It opened doors to understanding
the atomic world via NMR techniques which were developed into 3D
medical scanners. Of all the inventions of the 19th and the 20th
century it has done the most to promote world peace; helping to
bring us closer together, bridging distances at the speed of
light and making the world seem much smaller than it actually
is. It is our entertainment, our communication, our lifeline and
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