Germany. Under pressure from the Kaiser, several competing companies in the field of new technologies merge to form Telefunken. One person who played a significant role in the merger and subsequent development of Telefunken was Ferdinand Braun. In 1909, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Marconi for the invention of wireless (a political decision to equalize the “British” Marconi and Germany, despite the fact that wireless was actually invented by Guglielmo Marconi).
