On: The Next Silicon Valley

[listic]

(Full disclosure: I have graduated from Popov Electrical Engineering University, St.-Petersburg, Russia)

It bothers me how every time someone mentions the invention of radio, they seem to mention Marconi, not Popov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov)

Could it be because the history is written by the winners i.e. if Russia would be the world leader in electronics today, more people would recognize Popov than Marconi?

[kqr2 → listic]

But even Popov gives earlier credit to Tesla:

  In 1900, Popov stated at the Congress of Russian Electrical Engineers that,

  "the emission and reception of signals by Marconi by means 
  of electric oscillations was nothing new, as in America 
  Nikola Tesla did the same experiments in 1893."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio

[rjurney → listic]

Marconi is relevant here because he conducted numerous ship to shore experiments across the Atlantic, before coming to New York and starting the first telegraph network.