#OTD in 1896.
Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
On 13 May 1897, Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over open sea β a message was transmitted over the Bristol Channel from Flat Holm Island to Lavernock Point near Cardiff, a distance of 6 kilometres. The message read "Are you ready".
His patent is available here (later claimed by Oliver Lodge to contain his own ideas which he failed to patent):
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t0dv1dp4c&view=1up&seq=322
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