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Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves.
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Marchese Guglielmo Marconi builds his first radio equipment, a device that will ring a bell from 30 ft. away
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American scientist R.A. Fessenden transmists human speech via radiowaves
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First radio transmission of music at Graz, Austria
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First radio program of voice and music broadcast in the U.S. (by R.A. Fessenden)
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KDKA broadcasts the first regular licensed radio broadcast out of Pittsburgh, PA.
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March: WWJ, an AM station in Detroit, offers the University of Michigan broadcasting rights for extension lectures.
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Dreese instead runs experimental station WCBC as a project in the basement of West Engineering. This project died at the end of the academic year.
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WJR-AM offers educational broadcasting spots to the UM. The UM continued to broadcast on WWJ as well. WJR-AM offers educational broadcasting spots to the UM. The UM continued to broadcast on WWJ as well.
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A radio statio in NYC, WRNY begins to broadcast television shows
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In August 1953, Presley walked into the offices of Sun Records.
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the beatles
From 1960, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act and producer George Martin enhanced their musical potential. -
United States radio stations begin broadcasting in stereophonic sound.
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Tennessee to commemorate the site of the KWEM Radio Station Saturday Night Jamboree, the location of the first major public appearance by Elvis Presley before signing with Sun Records a year later
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In Paris an experimental digital FM transmitter begins operation