Radio History

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  • 1880

    1880

    The first intentional transmission of a signal as an experiment was sent by David Edwards Hughes.
  • 1890

    1890

    Guglielmo Marconi built the first commercially successful wireless telegraphy system.
  • 1900

    1900

    Roberto Landell de Moura transmitted the human voice wirelessly with a distance of half a mile
  • 1910

    1910

    Marconi opens up the worlds first purposely built radio factory.
  • 1920

    1920

    The first news program was brodcast by the station 8MK in Detroit.
  • 1930

    1930

    Single sideband and frequency modulation were invented
  • 1940

    1940

    Commercial television transmissions started in America and Europe.
    IN 1947 AT&T commercialized the Mobile telephone service.
  • 1950

    1950

    The Regency Company introduced a pocket radio. In 1955 the new company Sony produces its first transistorized radio.
  • 1963

    1963

    In the early 1960's color Television was being broadcast commercially. Not all stations were in color.
  • 1970

    1970

    In 1970, LORAN became the premier radio navigation syste
  • 1980

    1980

    The GPS is invented for the US Navy.
  • 1990

    1990

    In 1994, the U.S. Army and DARPA launched a software-defined radio that can be programmed to be virtually any radio by changing its software program. Digital transmissions began to be applied to broadcasting in the late 1990s.
  • 2000

    2000

    Internet Radio is created.