World’s first radio signal transmission

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24 March, 1896

The world’s first radio signal transmission was made by Alexander Popov on 24th March 1896. The great scientist had shown his Popov lightning detector to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society on 7th May 1895 – celebrated as Radio Day in Russia and other countries.