Radio- {'reıdı,əʋ}

• {N} radio [F], radiofonía [F]

Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) was one of a number of scientists (including Maxwell, Hertz, Lodge, Popov) who laid
the foundations of radio communications.

Nikola Tesla (1853-1943) was an outstanding and prolific inventor, who not only made fundamental and long-lasting
contributions to electrical power generation and transmission, for which he is best known, but also made significant
contributions to the early development of radio communications. He is one of several people who have been called the ‘inventor
of radio’.
 Fig A: Tesla as a young man (Photo in Tesla Museum, Beograd)

He was born in Smiljan, which is now in Croatia, but Serbs claim him as one of their heroes. His initial education was in
Austria (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). After leaving his local high school, he attended a polytechnic in Graz,
Austria, followed by study at the Charles University in Prague.
After employment with a telephone company in Budapest, he moved to Paris to work for the Continental Company of Edison.
Then, in 1884, he moved to the United States, initially to work with the Edison company, but in 1885 left Edison and founded
the ‘Tesla Arc & Light Company’. It was in USA that he put many of his novel ideas into practice, and where most of his
numerous inventions were patented, and so he is often referred to as an ‘American Inventor’.
Webers per square metre), named after him. The 100 Dinar banknote of Serbia shows Nicola Tesla, alongside the definition of
the SI unit of magnetic flux (Tesla

Within the history of radio, several people were involved in the invention of radio and there were many key inventions in what became the modern systems
of wireless.[1] Radiodevelopment began as "wireless telegraphy".[1] Closely related, radio was developed along with two other key inventions,
the telegraph and the telephone.[1] During the early development of wireless technology and long after its wide use, disputes persisted as to who could claim
credit for the invention of radio. The matter was important for economic, political and nationalistic reasons.

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Nikola Tesla: physicist, inventor, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. According to Lord Kelvin, Tesla "contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time."[10]

Around July 1891, Nikola Tesla constructed various apparatus that produced between 15,000 to 18,000 cycles per second. Transmission and radiation of
radio frequency energy was a feature exhibited in the experiments by Tesla which he proposed might be used for the telecommunication of information.[11][12]

After 1892, Tesla delivered a widely reported presentation before the Institution of Electrical Engineers of London in which he suggested that messages could
be transmitted without wires. Later, a variety of Tesla's radio frequency systems were demonstrated during another widely known lecture, presented to
meetings of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis, Missouri and theFranklin Institute in Philadelphia.

Between 1895 and 1899, Tesla claimed to have received wireless signals transmitted over long distances, although there is no independent evidence to
support this.[13]

Who invented the lightning rod? Easy -- Ben Franklin. Who invented the telephone? Easy -- Alexander
Graham Bell. Who invented the radio? Not so easy. At one time individual people invented many new
machines. However, as technology became more complex, more and more inventions were the result
of several people's work. Sometimes more than one person built the same invention. Also, sometimes
good businessmen made an invention popular and got the credit.
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Here is what happened with the invention of the radio, called wireless telegraphy at the time.
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Guglielmo Marconi, the person who generally gets the credit for inventing the radio, began
experimenting with wireless communication in the attic of his father's villa in Italy. In 1895, he sent a
wireless signal one and one-half miles.
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Marconi found that England was interested in his discovery. They hoped to use it for
communication with ships at sea. So, in 1896, Marconi moved to England and began his Wireless
Communication and Signal Company. By 1899, he was able to send a signal across the English
Channel, a distance of 31 miles.

Radio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light.[1] Electromagnetic
radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space. Information is carried by systematically
changing (modulating) some property of the radiated waves, such as amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width. When radio waves pass an electrical
conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor. This can be detected and transformed into sound or other signals that carry
information.

Invention
Main article: Invention of radio
The meaning and usage of the word "radio" has developed in parallel with developments within the field and can be seen to have three distinct phases:
electromagnetic waves and experimentation; wireless communication and technical development; and radio broadcasting and commercialization. Many
individuals—inventors, engineers, developers, businessmen - contributed to produce the modern idea of radio and thus the origins and 'invention' are multiple
and controversial. Early radio could not transmit sound or speech and was called the "wireless telegraph".
FM broadcast radio sends music and voice with higher fidelity than AM radio. In frequency modulation, amplitude variation at the microphonecauses the
transmitter frequency to fluctuate. Because the audio signal modulates the frequency and not the amplitude, an FM signal is not subject to static and
interference in the same way as AM signals

Radio was used to pass on orders and communications between armies and navies on both sides in World War I

Today, radio takes many forms, including wireless networks and mobile communications of all types, as well as radio broadcasting. Before the advent
of television, commercial radio broadcasts included not only news and music, but dramas, comedies, variety shows, and many other forms of entertainment
(the era from 1930 to the mid-1950s is commonly called radio's "Golden Age"). Radio was unique among methods of dramatic presentation in that it used only
sound.