Beginning around 1894, Oliver Lodge, Alexander Popov, and Guglielmo Marconi used it in the first historic experiments in radio communication, and it became the basis for radio reception, and remained in widespread use until about 1910.
A. S. Popov, the inventor of the radio, worked in this university.
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This and the fact that Alexander Stepanovich Popov did his first radio experiments in the area at the turn of the 20th century made the island an attractive destination for DX-peditioners.