The History of Radio Broadcasting

By Misturralecks

  • Marconi Sent and recieved the first radio signal

  • The Audion Tube was Invented

    Lee Deforest created the audion tube, a vacuum tube that amplified signals.

  • AMRAD broadcast the first continuous broadcast

    Harold Power with his radio company American Radio and Research Company (AMRAD), broadcast the first continuous broadcast in the world from Tufts University under the call sign
    1XE (it lasted 3 hours).

  • 8XK was created

    the first radio station ever.

  • WEAF aired a 10 minute commercial..

    it charged 50 dollars.

  • FRC ws establised

  • FM radio was patented by inventor Edwin H. Armstrong

  • Nikola Tesla experimentally demonstrated the transmission and radiation of radio frequency energy

  • Michael Jackson's Thriller is an American 13-minute music video for the song of the same name released

  • Tupac died

  • Michael Joseph Jackson Died

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