radio history

By trev.abills

  • Morse Code

    British physicist sir Oliver Lodge demonstrated the reception of Morse Code signaling using radio waves using a coherer

  • first radio signal

    an italian inventer named Marconi created the first radio signal with the sounding of taps from one place to another

  • first radio station

    Marconi opened the first radio station on the isle of wright in England

  • Tesla

    Tesla opened the wardencliff Tower facicility and advertised survices

  • R.A. Fessenden

    American scientist R.A. Fessenden transmists human speech via radiowaves

  • Audion tube

    Lee De Forest created the audion tube, this invention was a vaccum tube that amplified signals so radio broadcasting can be heard from more than a couple miles away

  • Shortwave radio

    Shortwave radio is developed.
    RCA is founded

  • First Radio Commercial

    The First Pioneer broadcasting station , Franmk Condrad WEAF aired the first Audio commercial

  • the FRC

    the FRC was created to organize and license all transmitters, they assigned radio station frequences

  • Golden Era

    the 1930s to the 1940s was the golden era for the radio
  • Columbia University's Radio Club

    Columbia University's Radio Club

    Oct.10: Columbia University's Radio Club opens the first regularly scheduled FM station
  • Television

    Television

    Television is born. FM is moved from its original home of 42-50 Mhz to 88-108 Mhz to make room for TV

  • Sony hand held radios

    Sony offers a miniature transistor radio. This is one of the first mass-produced consumer AM/FM radios

  • digital FM transmitter

    In Paris an experimental digital FM transmitter begins operation