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Ask the average person "Who invented radio?" and the average answer will be "Marconi." More correctly it was the product of many great minds such as Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Popov, Oliver Lodge, Reginald Fessenden, Heinrich Hertz, Mahlon Loomis, Nathan Stubblefield, James Clerk Maxwell, Edwin Howard Armstrong, David Hughes, William H. Peerce, A.W. Heaviside, Edouard Branly, Lee DeForest, Ambrose Fleming, Amos Emerson Dolbear, and Thomas Edison, among others. Where would these scientists have been without the work of those who came before them such as, Hans Christian Oersted, Andre M. Ampere, Georg Simon Ohm, Joseph Henry, Michael Faraday, and Charles Coulomb? Radio also owes its development to two other great inventions, the telegraph and the telephone, so credit also goes to Samuel Morse and Alexander Graham Bell. David Sarnoff was neither a scientist nor an engineer but saw the vast commercial value in putting radio in the home. The Galvin brothers put radio in the car and started the Motorola Company. I think the answer to the question of who invented radio lies in how you define "radio". If 'radio' is what I listen to on the drive to work, maybe it isn't finished being invented but is in a constant state of flux and is constantly being reinvented.

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