Wireless did what its name suggested - it did away with the wire connecting sender to receiver.
This meant that telegraphy, then telephony, could be extended across oceans and around the world.
Wireless signals could be picked up by any number of receivers, but range proved a problem...
Radio developed as a logical next step from telegraph - the need to find a way to send telegraph signals over of water without cables. But the discovery process goes back much further than that - and features some remarkable leaps of deduction - as well as feats of technological ...
With the development of wireless, we moved a big step closer to a 'joined up world' - in which every part of Earth was brought within contact.
The technological development that made this possible involved wireless going to sea and taking to the air. The development of...
Radio was the first means of instant mass communication - allowing the possibility to talk to whole populations at once. From the late 1920s on, important events started to become shared experiences for entire nations.
In Britain the technology of broadcasting evolved...