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Maxwell the Scot who sparked modern radio ideas
Ramon Coffman recounts how multiple inventors shaped radio and highlights James Clerk Maxwell, a Edinburgh born pioneer whose early math talent led to papers for the Royal Society and a Cambridge professorship, laying groundwork for electricity and magnetism.
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