Plaque in the Museum Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford (Photo: pr)

The text of the plaque reads:

Oliver Lodge Centenary of Radio Transmission

This plaque commemorates the centenary of the first public demonstration of wireless telegraphy, the precursor of modern radio. In this lecture theatre on 14 August 1894 at the Oxford meeting of The British Association, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., demonstrated the reception of a morse code signal transmitted from the old Clarendon Laboratory, some sixty metres away.

Sharp Laboratories of Europe generously funded this plaque which was unveiled by Sir Michael Atiyah, O.M., President of The Royal Society.

The Mode of Future Existence - 1933 Lecture by Sir Oliver Lodge FRS (1851-1940)

This article is censored from all large-circulation papers and magazines throughout the world because it links the subject of survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics - the study of the invisible part of the universe.

Sir Oliver Lodge Invented Radio Not Marconi

A plaque in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History commemorates Sir Oliver Lodge sending the first radio signal on August 14, 1894 at the Oxford meeting of The British Association.