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Epilogue

Marconi had established a consortium of powerful British investors. Several of these were members of Parliament. Because of this, the other researchers were effectively silenced by governmental actions. The Marconi Company soon dominated the wireless (radio) scene.

From about 1900 until 1943, there were a large number of patent rights battles in the courts of the United States and Great Britain.

Thus, Tesla was granted U.S. Patent 685,012 for the means of increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations. But in 1904, the US Patent Office reversed its decision and awarded Marconi the patent for radio. Tesla began his fight to re-acquire the radio patent. He died January 1943, at the age of 86. A few months after, the US Supreme Court upheld Tesla's patent number, in effect recognizing him as the inventor of radio.

Little by little, Marconi's patent empire was voided. In fact, Marconi's list of patent fights included almost all of the inventors and pioneers of radio communications. People like deForest, Fleming, and others were in an almost constant fight with Marconi and his company. Because of these lengthy patent battles, the British Government did not wish to aid those fighting against the British-based Marconi Company. Therefore, they insisted that Marconi was the inventor of radio.

In Loomis' case, the patent was issued before Marconi was even born.

It is unfortunate that this misconception is still being taught today. However, as it is with any event in history, invention of a process is seldom the responsibility of only one singular person.

English Electric acquired The Marconi Company in 1946 which complemented its other operations; heavy electrical engineering, aircraft and its railway traction business. In October 2005 the Marconi name and most of the assets were proposed to be bought by the Swedish firm Ericsson. The transaction was completed on January 23, 2006.
 
Sources

LOOMIS

Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation.
Radio-Ref N°787 – avril 2006 – Histoire des sciences et des techniques
Patent # 129,971 dated July 30 1872 issued to Mahlon Loomis
Radio Theory and Operating by Mary Texanna Loomis (1925)
"Wireless Pioneer in Virginia" by Theodore M Hannah Virginia Cavalcade volume 12 #3 winter 1962-63
"Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy" New England Magazine by G. Loomis Volume 24, 1901.
"Loomis Bills" from Association of Lynchburg General electric Engineers COMMUNICATOR December 1965
"Man Before Marconi" QST , by J.B. Lebo QST Aug 1948
Dessin loomis : Library of Congress Archives
MARCONI

Rhue, Ben. “How Kites Aided the Birth of Radio.” Seattle, WA.: Drachen Foundation – Kite Journal, Vol. 2, Spring 1999.
best-breezes
“Hint for Marconi - New Jersey Man Gives Some Pointers on Kites and Wireless Telegraphy.” Halifax, N.S.: The Halifax Herald, Dec. 13, 1901.
Manual of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony 2nd ed. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1909
Marconi, Guglielmo. “A Radio Dream Come True.” Jamaica, N.Y. Radio News, March 1930.
Originally published in Kiting, The Journal of the American Kitefliers Association Vol. 23, Issue 5 - Winter 2002 © - November 2001 - Robert (Bob) White Marconi's Miracle: The Wireless Bridging of the Atlantic - D. R. Tarrant
Dessin kite Marconi : marconicalling