Radio History

  • David Hughes

    David Hughes
    David E. Hughes noticed that sparks could be heard in a telephone receiver when experimenting with his carbon microphone
  • Heinreich Rudolf Hertz

    Heinreich Rudolf Hertz
    Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was able to prove transmitted airborne electromagnetic waves in an experiment proving Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism
  • Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla began developing his own system based on Hertz and Maxwell's ideas mainly as a means of wireless lighting and power distribution
  • Marconi

    Marconi
    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the first complete commercially successful wireless telegraphy system
  • Roberto Landell de Moura

    Roberto Landell de Moura
    Brazilian priest Roberto Landell de Moura transmitted the human voice wirelessly for the first time over a 5 mile distance
  • Audison Tube

    Audison Tube
    The Ausdison Tube is an electromagnetic amplifying vacuum created by Lee De Forest who is ab American inventor.
  • First radio broadcast

    First radio broadcast
    Reginald Fessenden used a synchronous rotary-spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast
  • Sports Broadcasting

    Sports Broadcasting
    Sports broadcasting began,the first ever college football on radio broadcast of a 1921 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh football game