**Tesla did NOT invent radio**

Sadly, even PBS exaggerates Tesla. http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html

The 1943 Supreme Court ruling was not Tesla versus Marconi. Patent 645,576 mentioned in the PBS article is not one specifically for radio, but was for "System Of Transmission Of Electrical Energy."

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Tesla early radio pioneer | https://geekhistory.com/content/nikola-tesla-legacy-most-interesting-geek-world


The Supreme Court declared various Marconi patents invalid, it affirmed prior work and patents by not only Nikola Tesla, but also patents that were held by Sir Oliver Lodge and John Stone Stone. The Tesla argument sounds good on the surface, until you read the court ruling. The syllabus at the beginning of the 1943 U.S. Supreme Court decision provides a summary of the ruling. You really have to dig into the decision to find references to Tesla

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The Supreme Court never determined that Tesla invented radio. 
http://www.mercurians.org/1998_fall/misreading.htm

"Stone's [patent] application," the Court wrote, "shows an intimate understanding of the mathematical and physical principles underlying radio communication and electrical circuits in general."

As a recent Tesla biography states, he is "Revered as a demigod by some in the New Age community."6

6 Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1996), p. xiii.

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About  that  1943  U.S.  Supreme  Court  Decision | To repeat, the 1943 Supreme Court case never made any sort of ruling as to "who invented radio", nor did it ever intend to. |  https://earlyradiohistory.us/tesla.htm

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Marconi Wireless Tel. Co. v. United States, 320 U.S. 1 (1943)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/320/1/case.html

The Tesla patent No. 645,576  Tesla's apparatus was devised primarily for the transmission of energy to any form of energy-consuming device by using the rarified atmosphere at high elevations as a conductor when subjected to the electrical pressure of a very high voltage

In patent No. 609, 154  Lodge disclosed an adjustable induction coil in the open or antenna circuit in a wireless transmitter or receiver or both to enable transmitter and receiver to be tuned together.

The Stone patent No. 714,756 showed a four-circuit wireless telegraph apparatus substantially like that later specified and patented by Marconi.