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“Guglielmo Marconi is usually credited with inventing the radio, but a 1943 US Supreme Court decision invalidated key parts of his patent, recognizing earlier work by others including Nikola Tesla.”

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Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica

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What's on channel 1?

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to Mobile Services (two-way radios in
taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV
set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

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