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On the Stamp
A radio tower, a globe showing Asia and a large gold dish aerial on a deep blue ground, with the words “100 Years of Radio Communication” in Hindi and English, on a ₹5 stamp.
A Hundred Years of Radio
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 17 May 1995. The centenary it marks goes back to the summer of 1895, when Guglielmo Marconi moved his experiments in wireless telegraphy outdoors on his father’s estate near Bologna. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferdinand Braun for their contributions to wireless telegraphy. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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