Where was radio invented?
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The first practical wireless radio communication system was developed in Italy byGuglielmo Marconi. Marconi built on the mathematics of physicistJames Clerk Maxwell and the experiments of bothOliver Lodge andHeinrich Hertz to transmit experimentalbroadcasts from the lab he built in 1894 at his family’s country villa. He developed his practical wireless communication system in 1895, and he filed a patent for it in England in 1896.