Wireless telegraphy had been really born. It was the first time the "Hertzion waves" had been shown to be capable of crossing the ordinary atmosphere, as opposed to passing through specially isolated atmosphere in laboratories.
"But Italy was sceptical. No practical use in the demonstration was acknowledged. Signora Marconi thereupon took her son to England, where, with the aid of her relatives, he was granted the first patent for a practical system of wireless telegraphy. That was in 1896. Marconi was only 22.
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