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  2. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. [2] [3] On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs.

  3. Guglielmo Marconi - Wikipedia

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    Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi [11] [12] was born in Palazzo Marescalchi in Bologna on 25 April 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme who lived in the countryside of Pontecchio) and his Irish wife Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, sister of Scottish naturalist James Sligo Jameson, and ...

  4. Invention of radio - Wikipedia

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    Before the discovery of electromagnetic waves and the development of radio communication, there were many wireless telegraph systems proposed and tested. [4] In April 1872 William Henry Ward received U.S. patent 126,356 for a wireless telegraphy system where he theorized that convection currents in the atmosphere could carry signals like a telegraph wire. [5]

  5. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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    1896: First practical wireless telegraphy systems based on Radio. See: History of radio. 1900: first television displayed only black and white images. Over the next decades, colour television were invented, showing images that were clearer and in full colour.

  6. Wireless - Wikipedia

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    Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (telecommunication) between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most common wireless technologies use radio waves.

  7. Tord Wingren - Wikipedia

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    Tord Wingren is a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur, and scientist and holder of 28 patents relating to wireless communication, technology, and the implications of light on the human body. [1] He developed Bluetooth technology while working with Ericsson Mobile Communications , and is the co-founder of several technology companies including ...

  8. Photophone - Wikipedia

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    the first wireless telephone message in the history of the world. the apparatus used in sending the message was the photophone invented by alexander graham bell inventor of the telephone this plaque was placed here by alexander graham bell chapter telephone pioneers of america march 3, 1947 the centennial of dr. bell's birth

  9. Aleksandr Popov (physicist) - Wikipedia

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    The first account of communication by Popov was a ... waves for actual wireless communication before mid-1896. ... very first radiogram using the device he invented ...