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Show ZvXOZvX-:-z-:-z-:-x-:-x-z-:-x-:-x-:-xoi-:z-x-:-x-:-zxvz-:-z-:-x-:-xx-:-x-?xv-:- j Russian Given Credit for Radio "Invention" Who was the "inventor" of radio? The Soviet government claims the honor for a Russian. Prof. Alexander Stepanovitch Popoff. and has adopted a characteristic method of telling the world about it. A new Russian stamp came to the notice of the writer a short time ago. Above an excellent likeness appear the words "Invenlisto (le Radio-Popov." The language of this inscription is Esperanto, though the other characters charac-ters on the stamp are Russian. The facts appear to be that Professor Profes-sor Popoff admittedly one of the great pioneers of wireless-publicly, transmitted wireless signals over a distance of -10 meters in 1XU tbe year before Marconi took out his first patent for Hertzian wave telegraphy. But Rra'.iiy and Sir Oliver Lodge had been experimenting for some time alon- the same lines, ae-i the latter gave demonstrations in 1S04 in which "coherers" (the earliest form of radio "detectors") were employed. It is not ; easy, therefore, to award the palm, j Hertz, after all, was the first to pro- I duce the radio wave. j |