Marconi and the experimenters
K. G. Beauchamp · Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks · 2001
The history of practical wireless communications, as it applies to wireless telegraphy, could be said to commence with Marconi's work. However, this would be to ignore a vast hinterland of events leading up to Marconi's achievement in 1896, which, although not in themselves productive of applicable results, allowed a practical commercial system to emerge through Marconi's enterprise.