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Article: Wireless Technology
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Wireless Technology
Wireless technology provides the ability to communicate between two or more entities over distances without the use of wires or cables of any sort. This includes communications using radio frequency (RF) as well as
infrared (IR) waves
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The birth of wireless technology started with the discovery of electromagnetic waves by Heinrich Hertz (1857
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1894). Guglielmo Marconi (1874
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1937) established the very first commercial RF communications, the wireless telegraph, in the late 1890s
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more than fifty years after the first commercial wired telegraph service that was demonstrated in 1832 by Samuel F. B. Morse (1791
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1872). Marconi was also the ...