The only problem is that while wireless induction transfers information over short distances, but it's not by using light speed radio waves. So the quoted title isn't quite kosher.Besides Loomis, Thomas Edison invented a induction wireless system for use on trains in the 1880's:
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The system worked but wasn't profitable and that's what Edison was all about. Hen eventually sold his patent to Marconi and helped him gain the edge over Tesla as a Marconi Company consultant and mentor. Edison hated his former employee Tesla with a passion after losing the "The War of the Currents" (Edison's DC v Tesla's AC power distribution systems). Edison became Maroni's mentor and a consultant. L. Frank Baum based the "Wizard of Oz" wizard on the real "Wizard of Menlo Park".
Marconi, like Edison stole with abandon from others especially Nikola Tesla, Oliver Lodge and Chandra Bose. Lodge sued and won in 1911; Tesla sued and won in 1943 (albeit he died before the judgement). Marconi out-right lied about what happened at Signal Hill in Dec 1901 (no third party witnesses except for his employees), but the lie stopped Tesla et al in their tracks, his company got a huge cash infusion from investors. Insider trading was legal back then, and so he told his family, friends and even royal patrons to buy his Company stock before the public press release was issued. As a result, he faced no more competition from Tesla because investors flocked to Maroni. Nothing succeeds like success, and no one cares who came in second place.
But when he did transatlantic wireless radio tests onboard the SS Philadelphia from England to the US (Feb 1902), Marconi learned the horrible truth and lost two-way and then one-way radio communications well short of North America. He ended up doing a major rethink and redesign of his system, but in Dec 1902, Marconi established transatlantic communication between Table Head in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and Poldhu, Cornwall, England using a 60 kilowatt transmitter and four 210-foot (64 m) towers. Then, and only then was Marconi able to openly and successfully demonstrate two-way radio wireless messaging across the Atlantic.
Who says that radio history is boring. Because it gets really interesting with the other personalities involved and their intertangled business and personal relationships.
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