Principles of

Communications
History of Electronic Communication
Engr. Christopher V. Maglaque, MEM
Assistant Professor IV
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Describe below are some of the milestones of the electronic
communication system.

1830: American Scientist and Professor Joseph Henry transmitted the

first practical electrical signal.

History of 1837: Samuel Finley Breese Morse invented the telegraph.

Electronic 1843: Alexander Bain invented the facsimile.

1861: Johann Phillip Reis completed the first nonworking telephone.
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1864: James Clerk Maxwell released his paper “Dynamic Theory of the
Electromagnetic Field”, which concluded that light electricity, and
magnetism were related.
1865: Dr. Mahlon Loomis became the first person to communicate
wireless through the Earth’s atmosphere.
1866: First transatlantic telegraph cable was installed.
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1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson Invented the
telephone.
1877: Thomas Alva Edison invents the phonograph.
1880: Heinrich Hertz discovers electromagnetic waves.
History of 1887: Heinrich Hertz discovers radio waves. Marchese Guglielmo
Electronic Marconi demonstrates wireless radio wave propagation.
Communication 1888: Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves. Heinrich
Hertz conclusively proved Maxwell’s prediction that electricity can
travel in waves through the Earth’s atmosphere.
1894: Marchese Guglielmo Marconi builds his first radio equipment,
a device that rings a bell from 30 ft. away.
1895: Marchese Guglielmo Marconi discovered ground wave
propagation.
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1898: Marchese Guglielmo Marconi established the first radio link
between England and France.
1900: American Scientist Reginald A. Fessenden the world’s first
radio broadcast using continuous waves.
History of 1901: Marchese Guglielmo Marconi transmits telegraphic radio
messages from Cornwall, to Newfoundland. Reginald A. Fessenden
Electronic transmits the World’s first radio broadcast using continuous waves.
Communication First successful transatlantic transmission of radio signal.
1903: Valdemar Poulsen patents an arc transmission that generates
continuous wave transmission 100-kHz signal that is receivable 150
miles away.
1904: First radio transmission of music at Graz, Austria.
1905: Marchese Guglielmo Marconi invents the directional radio
antenna.
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1906: Reginald A. Fessenden invents amplitude modulation (AM).
First radio program of voice and music broadcasted in the United
States by Reginald Fessenden. Lee DeFrorest invents triode (three-
electrode) vacuum tube.
History of 1907: Reginald Fessenden invents a high- frequency Electric
generator that produces radio waves with a frequency of 100 kHz.
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1908: General Electric develops a 100-kHz, 2-kW alternator for
Communication radio communications.
1910: The Radio Act of 1910 is the first concurrence of government
regulation of radio technology and services.
1912: The Radio Act of 1912 in the United States brought order to
the radio bands by requiring station and operators’ licenses and
assigning blocks of the frequency spectrum to the existing users.
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1913: The cascade-tuning radio receiver and the heterodyne
receiver are introduced.
1914: Major Edwin Armstrong develops the superheterodyne radio
receiver.
1915: Vacuum-tube radio transmitters introduced.
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1919: Shortwave radio is developed.
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1920: Radio Station KDKA broadcasts the first regular licensed
Communication radio transmission out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1921: Radio Corporation of America (RCA) begins operating Radio
Central on Long Island. The American Radio League establishes
contact via shortwave radio with Paul Godley in Scotland, proving
that shortwave radio can be used for long distance
communications.
1923: Vladimir Zworykin invents and demonstrates television
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1927: A temporary five- member Federal Radio Commission agency was
created in the United States.
1928: Radio station WRNY in New York City begins broadcasting television
shows. (Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs – first animated movie)
History of 1931: Major Edwin Armstrong patents wide- band frequency modulation (FM).
Electronic 1934: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created to regulate
Communication telephone, radio, and television broadcasting.
1935: Commercial FM radio broadcasting begins with monophonic
transmission.
1937: Alec H. Reeves invents binary coded pulse-code modulation. (PCM)
1939: National Broadcasting Company (NBC) demonstrates television
broadcasting. First use of two-way radio communications using walkie-talkies.
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1941: Columbia University Radio Club opens the first regularly
scheduled FM radio station.
1945: Television is born. FM moved from its original home of 42 MHz to
50 MHz to 88 MHz to 108 MHz to make room.
1946: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
History of inaugurated the first mobile telephone system for the public called MTS
(Mobile Telephone System).
Electronic 1948: John Von Neumann created the first store program electronic
Communication digital computer. Bell Telephone Laboratories unveiled the transistor, a
joint venture of scientist William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter
Brattain.
1951: First transcontinental microwave system began operation.
1952: Sony Corporation offers a miniature transistor radio, one of the
first mass produced consumer AM/FM radios.
1953: RCA and MBC broadcast first color television transmission.
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1954: The number of radio stations in the world exceeds the
number of newspapers printed daily.
1954: Texas Instruments becomes the first company to
commercially produce silicon transistors.
History of 1956: First transatlantic telephone cable systems began carrying
Electronic calls.

Communication 1957: Russia launches the world’s first satellite. (Sputnik)

1958: Kilby and Noyce develop first integrated circuits.
NASA launched the United States first satellite.
1961: FCC approves FM stereo broadcasting, which spurs the
development of FM. Citizens band (CB) radio first used.
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1962: U.S. radio stations begin broadcasting stereophonic sound.
1963: T1 (transmission 1) digital carrier systems introduced.
1965: First commercial communications satellite launched.
History of 1970: High-definition television (HDTV) introduced in Japan.
Electronic 1977: First commercial use of optical fiber cables.
Communication 1983: Cellular telephone networks introduced in the United States.
1999: HDTV standards implemented in the United States.
1999: Digital Television (DTV) transmission began in the United
States.
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