Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources Reading Comprehension Worksheets Inventors and Inventions

Inventor of the Radio Inventors and Inventions

---

Inventor of the Radio
Print Inventor of the Radio Reading Comprehension


Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 9 to 12
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	9.28

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		Guglielmo, telegraphy, filed, villa, professor, technology, discovery, subject, original, laboratory, standard, individual, complex, beyond, prove, destination
	content words:		Alexander Graham Bell, Wilbur Wright, Guglielmo Marconi, Wireless Communication, Signal Company, English Channel, United States, Nikola Tesla, But Marconi, When Marconi

---

Inventor of the Radio By Sharon Fabian

---

¹     Who invented the telephone? Easy -- Alexander Graham Bell. Who invented the airplane? Easy - Orville and Wilbur Wright. Who invented the radio? Not so easy. At one time individual people invented many new machines. However, as technology became more complex, more and more inventions were the result of several people's work. Sometimes more than one person built the same invention. Also, sometimes good businessmen made an invention popular and got the credit.
 
²     Here is what happened with the invention of the radio, called wireless telegraphy at the time.
 
³     Guglielmo Marconi, the person who generally gets the credit for inventing the radio, began experimenting with wireless communication in the attic of his father's villa in Italy. In 1895, he sent a wireless signal one and one-half miles.
 
⁴     Marconi found that England was interested in his discovery. They hoped to use it for communication with ships at sea. So, in 1896, Marconi moved to England and began his Wireless Communication and Signal Company. By 1899, he was able to send a signal across the English Channel, a distance of 31 miles.
 
⁵     At the same time, an inventor in the United States, Nikola Tesla, was also experimenting with wireless communication. As early as 1893, he had experimented with the technology and conducted demonstrations and lectures on the subject. Unfortunately, his progress was slowed when a fire destroyed his laboratory.

Paragraphs 6 to 11:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable

---

Weekly Reading Books

Create Weekly Reading Books Prepare for an entire week at once!

---

Feedback on Inventor of the Radio

Leave your feedback on Inventor of the Radio   (use this link if you found an error in the story)

---

Inventors and Inventions

Inventors and Inventions

---

More Lessons

High School Reading Comprehensions and High School Reading Lessons

---

Social Studies

Social Studies

United States History and Theme Units         American Government         Ancient America         Ancient China         Ancient Egypt         Ancient Greece         Ancient India         Ancient Mesopotamia         Ancient Rome         Biographies         Canadian Theme Unit         Country Theme Units         Crime and Terrorism         Economics         European History: 1600s-1800s

Explorers         Famous Educators         Geography         Grades 2-3 Social Studies Wendy's World Series         History of Books and Writing         History of Mathematics         How Can I Help?         Inventors and Inventions         Middle Ages         Renaissance         World Religion         World War I         World War II         World Wonders

Copyright © 2025 edHelper