Whether it’s annoying or not, that music that pours through our earbuds or speakers on our phones while we’re on hold is something we expect. Sometimes it’s classical, sometimes it’s jazzy.

Tesla filed his own basic radio patent applications in 1897. They were granted in 1900. Marconi's first patent application in America, filed on November 10, 1900, was turned down.

Tesla wanted an extraordinary way to demonstrate the potential of his system for wireless transmission of energy [radio]. In 1898, at an electrical exhibition in the recently completed Madison ...

Radio Ready is a new global initiative designed to make sure we continue to have easy access to radio in our cars.

And in 1919 he founded Radio News, with Television News launched in 1928, just a couple of years after the first experimental tests of TV. That doesn’t even include the sci-fi titles he started ...

Listeners to Radio 4's You and Yours programme have voted the humble bike as their number one invention. Home. News. Sport. ... The humble bicycle has won a UK national survey of people's favourite ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of The Patent Office, we asked you to nominate the best and worst inventions. From your nominations, a short list was drawn up and then voted on by Today listeners ...