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In 1897, the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, Limited, was founded in London to promote the radio--then known as "wireless telegraphy"--inventions of Guglielmo Marconi. As part of worldwide expansion, American Marconi was organized as a subsidiary in 1899, holding the rights to Marconi patents in the United States and Cuba. In 1912, American Marconi took control of the assets of the bankrupt United Wireless Telegraph Company, and from that

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