Jagadish Chandra Bose : The Real Inventor of Marconi ’ s Wireless Detector

1. Introduction The invention of radio, one of the most important inventions of the 20 th century is attributed to Guglielmo Marconi of Italy. Though it is disputed whether Nikola Tesla's patent on radio precedes that of Marconi, it is well-known that the first demonstration of radio transmission over several thousand miles was done by Marconi in the year 1901. There have been other claims of radio transmission which precede that of Marconi, but Marconi's experiment is the only one which was not conducted in a hidden laboratory and was open for scientific scrutiny and commercialization (which he himself did).\