| Names |
RADIO DAY |
| Date of
Birth |
May 07 |
| Identity |
It is a commemoration of
the development of radio in Russia. |
| General |
- It is officially known in Russia as
Communications Workers' Day or Radio and Television Day.
- On 7 May, 1895 Alexander Popov successfully demonstrated his invention.
- In 1895, Popov gave the first public demonstration of
radio as a tool before the Russian Physical and Chemical
Society in St. Petersburg, using Sir Oliver Lodge's coherer
as a lightning detector.
- Popov has generally been recognized in Eastern Europe as
an "inventor of radio", in contrast to the West's
recognition of Guglielmo Marconi as the first to develop a
viable system based on radio (Herzian) waves.
- Radio Day was first observed in the Soviet Union in
1945, on the 50th anniversary of Popov's experiment, and
some four decades after his death. Radio Day is officially
marked in Russia and Bulgaria.
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