History of Wireless Communications
From Building the Wireless FutureĀ® to Expanding the Wireless Frontierā¢
- Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. The following year, the first private telephone was installed in the home of Charles Williams of Somerville, MA. By the end of 1880, 47,900 telephones were in use in the U.S.
1895
- Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communications by sending and receiving the first radio signal. Four years later, Marconi flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel.

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