radio timeline

  • Heinrich hertz

    Heinrich hertz
    he proved you can transport electrical waves
  • Tesla coil

    invented by Nikola telsa
  • first wireless communication over open sea

    first wireless communication over open sea
    marconi sent the first over sea message
  • FIRST transatlantic message

    FIRST transatlantic message
    from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1901
  • audion tube

    audion tube
    very first amplifier to help push waves further and further by providing power to the signal
  • kdka

    kdka
    first us radio station
  • WEAF aired a 10 minute broadcast for an apartment complex

    they made a commercial for a apartment complex for 50 dollars
  • tv

    tv
    the exposition of tv would kill the radio
  • great depression

    great depression
    severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s
  • fm

    radio to allow the high dynamic range of music