In 1895, Popov gave the first public demonstration of radio as a tool before the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, using Sir Oliver Lodge's coherer as a lightning detector.
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Popov has generally been recognized in Eastern Europe as an "inventor of radio" (although it may be more due to politics than historical evidence), in contrast to the West's recognition of Guglielmo Marconi as the first to develop a viable system based on radio (Herzian) waves.
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