MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF RADIO

1830

1844
1873

1876

SAMUEL MORSE INVENTS THE TELEGRAPH FIRST TELEGRAPH MESSAGE, WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT? JAMES MAXWELL IDENTIFIES THE EXISTENCE OF INVISIBLE RADIANT ENERGY WHICH TRAVELS IN SPACE AT THE SPEED OF THE LIGHT IN THE FORM OF WAVES ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL INVENTS THE TELEPHONE

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1895

1906

HEINRICH HERTZ PROVED MAXWELLS THEORY IN A PAPER, ELECTRONIC WAVES AND THEIR REFLECTION. HERTZS NAME, ABBREVIATED Hz HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AS THE STANDARD WAY TO IDENTIFY RADIO FREQUENCIES. ONE Hz=ONE CYCLE PER SECOND GUGLIELMO MARCONI INVENTS A SYSTEM OF WIRELESS TRANSMISSION USING HERTZS THEORY LEE DeFOREST INVENTS THE AUDION TUBE THAT MADE POSSIBLE VOICE COMMUNICATION

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FESSENDEN MAKES FIRST SOUND BROADCAST;DeFOREST ADAPTS VACUUM TUBES FOR RADIO RECEIVERS EDWIN ARMSTRONG INVENTS FM RADIO ACT TWO MILLION PHONOGRAPHS SOLD FRANK CONRAD STARTS FIRST RADIO STATION KDKA IN PITTSBURGH AT&T STARTS COMMERCIAL, TOLL BROADCASTING ON WEAF

1930S 1912 1918 1920

1922

1926 1927

RCA STARTS NBC RADIO NETWORK. AT&T PULLS OUT OF BROADCASTING FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION (FRC) STARTED FIXES AM BAND AT 535 1605 kHz ADVERTISING SUPPORT BECOMES DOMINANT IN RADIO ARMSTRONG DEVELOPS FM RADIO FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION STARTED

1927 1933 1934

1934 1938 1947

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION STARTED CHAIN BROADCASTING HEARINGS RADIO LOSING GROUNDS TO TV

1947

1955 1962

WALTER BRATAIN, WILLIAM SCHOKLEY, JOHN BARDEEN WORKING IN BELL LABORATRIES INVENT THE TRANSISTOR RISE OF TOP 40
CASSETTE TAPES INTRODUCED

WIRELESS RADIO TELEGRAPHY GUGLIELMO MARCONI CREATED WIRELESS TELEGRAPH USING RADIO WAVES TO CARRY MESSAGES IN MORSE CODE. THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPH PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE TITANIC DISASTER