Though Lee deForest liked to call himself the “Father of Radio,” the first practical apparatus for wireless telegraphy — as radio was called until the teens — was invented by Gugielmo Marconi in the 1890’s.
For his part, Marconi owed a debt of gratitude to both Heinrich Hertz and James Clerk Maxwell, whose work with electro-magnetism and radio waves formed the theoretical underpinnings of the “wireless telegraph.” Credit for radio’s ultimate success as a broadcast medium, however, probably goes to RCA executive David Sarnoff, who — early on — understood the financial and cultural implications of being able to broadcast from one point to many.
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