March 12, 2004 Kwantlen College
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser
University
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Wireless patents: 1897
nAfter the fire that
destroyed his New York laboratory, Tesla resumed wireless transmission tests.
nThe receiver was operated on
a boat traveling up the Hudson River.
nTwo fundamental wireless
patents were issued:
nNo. 645,576
nNo. 649,621.
nIn 1943, U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this work, together with works of Oliver Lodge and John Stone, anticipated Marconi’s work.