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When was the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company founded?
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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi, shown here about 1908, invented a successful wireless telegraph (that is, a radio) in 1896.
The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, Ltd. was founded in 1897 with the assistance of Guglielmo Marconiās cousin, Jameson Davis, who helped finance Marconi's patent and organize the company. The name of the firm was later changed in 1900 to Marconiās Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd.1