Article: SWITCHED-ON SCOT REALLY INVENTED THE RADIO; UNSUNG HERO: Recognition at last for pioneer who made breakthrough before Marconi.(News)

A SHY Scottish genius has finally been recognised as the real inventor of radio.

Research has shown electrical engineer Alexander Muirhead and physics professor Sir Oliver Lodge made the first-ever transmission 106 years ago.

And that was a year before Marconi, the man who was thought to have invented wireless technology, gave his demonstration and claimed the credit in London.

Now Muirhead and Lodge will be given their rightful place in history this weekend when an exhibition of their work is unveiled at the Oxford University Museum of Natural ...

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