In the radio race, one inventor came out ahead while the other was overshadowed. Michael Aranda goes into the history of the radio and the many people who contributed to make the tool we use every day.

Title card: "Presenting His Holiness the Pope!" / aerials Vatican City / St Peter's Basilica / car pulls up, cardinal and others waiting / another cardinal jumps out of car then Pope Pius XI gets out / as Pope leaves car everyone...

Gov. Lawrence Judd shakes hands with inventor Guglielmo Marconi and wife Maria / closer shot of them, Marconis adorned with leis, officer behind / Note: exact day not known