JAKARTA - Today, February 13th, the whole world is celebrating World Radio Day. Where since the first, radio is an analog device in communicating or conveying information.

Even though times have turned digital, the use of radio is still used in every corner of the world. Various national and international organizations have also carried out several programs to welcome this day.

The commemoration of World Radio Day has been carried out by UNESCO for a long time, given the importance of radio media. World Radio Day highlights the unique power of radio that connects lives and brings people from all over the world together.

Radio and Diversity is the theme raised in this year's commemoration. The theme highlights the special value of using radio in the era of the media revolution which has now grown rapidly. Moreover, radio broadcasts have cultural and linguistic values in each region.

"Radio has a special value in every community as an easily accessible media source," said UN Secretary General Antonio Gutterres in his official statement.

Announced in 2011 by UNESCO Member States, and adopted by the United Nations in 2012 as International Day, however on February 13 it has become World Radio Day.

Radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all of its diversity, and a platform for democratic discourse. At the global level, radio remains the most popular medium.

Radio's unique capabilities aim to reach a wide audience, meaning that radio can shape people's experiences of diversity, standing as an arena for all voices to speak, be represented and heard.

Inventor of the First Time Radio?

Launching HowStuffWorks, Until now not many can guess who invented radio for the first time. The reason is that the Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla and the Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi competed with each other to create radio before the 20th century.

Continuing his life in the United States (US) in 1884, Tesla invented the induction coil or Tesla roll. An essential device for sending and receiving radio waves.

While Marconi was conducting his own experiments and in 1896, he was sending and receiving radio signals based on Morse code over a distance that stretched nearly 4 miles (6 kilometers) across England. That same year, he applied for and was awarded the world's first patent in wireless telegraphy in the UK.

Meanwhile, Tesla filed for his first patent in radio work in 1897 in the US. He also built and demonstrated radio-controlled attention at Madison Square Garden in 1898.

In 1900, the US Patent Office awarded Tesla 645,576 and 649,621 the basic designs of the Tesla scrolls obtained on March 20 and May 15, respectively. Tesla's radio patents gave him ownership of one of the major necessities of radio communication. In the same year, on November 10, Marconi also filed for patent No. 7777 for the telegraph.

Initially, the patent office rejected Marconi's application on the grounds that his work depended solely on Tesla's scroll. Ultimately, however, Marconi used his father's connections and wealth to spearhead a lucrative business based on telegraph technology while continuing to pursue his radio patents. In 1901, he sent the first transatlantic telegraph.

Over the next three years, Marconi re-registered his patent with the support of investors Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison. Finally, in 1904, the US patent office immediately gave the decision and gave Marconi the label as the inventor of radio.

More about Marconi's competition with Tesla. In 1915, Tesla sued the Marconi company for failed patent infringement. Marconi wins.

But fate said otherwise, at the end of his heyday Marconi sued the US government in 1943 for patent infringement during World War I. But the case never arrived in court. In exchange, to avoid excess charges, the US Supreme Court upheld patent 645,576 and established Tesla as the inventor of radio even though Tesla had died a few months earlier. Even so, some people still consider Marconi to be the father of radio.


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