“The radio? It was invented by an Italian, right?” You might be thinking that. You are in front of Place Edouard Branly, named for a French physicist who was one of the pioneers of wireless telegraphy. You will need to look a little closer to see why. It is not a park or a square. It’s a little space between buildings, an intersection that has a streetlamp and a few benches, where residents come to chat or to get a breath of fresh air. There is no monument to this great scientist, but the location of the point of interest was where the former laboratory of the Catholic Institute of Paris stood. It was here that Edouard Branly built his first radio wave detector. He called it a “radioconducteur” because it was made of metal filings that could be made to conduct electricity by the action of radio waves. The radioconducteur would become a crucial technology for wireless communication. In fact, it was so crucial that an Italian named Guglielmo Marconi would build on Branly’s work and invent the first practical wireless telegraph, which was a major advancement in communication technology.
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