When was the Scottish-born scientist died after whose invention "Kōbushō" had started an effort to make telephone receivers?
Oki Kibatarō Oki Kibatarō (沖 牙太郎 , 1848–1906) was an engineer formerly employed at a Japanese Ministry of Industry ("Kōbushō") factory. In 1877, only a year after Alexander Graham Bell's invention, "Kōbushō" had started an effort to make telephone receivers by reverse engineering and Oki was in the team that came up with the first prototype.
Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi ( ; ] ; 25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is usually credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".