Guglielmo Marconi and Early Systems of Wireless Communication
R. W. Simons · 1996
The description of Marconi as `the Father of Wireless' is attributed to Aleksandr Popov (1859-1906), the contemporary Russian Scientist, who was one of the many people studying the work of Hertz in the latter part of the last century. Having spent over forty years in the Marconi Company, I came to realise that I did not know very much about Marconi himself (fig. 1), or the origins of the technique of wireless communication. I soon discovered that I was not alone in my lack of