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The first intentional transmission of a signal of electromagnetic waves was made in an experiment by David Edward Hughes.
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Guglieolmo Marconi created the first radio station in England.
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A Brazilian priest named Roberto Landell de Moura transmitted a human voice wirelessly, about a half a mile away.
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In June, Marconi opened the world's first purpose-built radio factory in Chelmsford, England.
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The first radio broadcast for news by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
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The Marconi Research Laboratory was built, providing a place for many improvements and inventions for radio.
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AT&T commercialized the mobile telephone service starting in North America and Europe. It was still very rare and with only 5,000 customers and about 30,000 calls each week.
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The Regency company introduced a pocket transistor radio in 1954 and in 1955 the Sony company introduced its first transistorized radio.
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In 1963, color television was being broadcast commercially and the first radio was launched.
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In 1979, the mobile cell phone was introduced to the Americas.
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The U.S. Navy experimented with satellite navigation, leading to the launch of the Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation in 1987.
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Amateur radio experimenters began to use personal computers with audio cards to process radio signals.
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In 2003, revenue from online streaming music radio was $49 million. By 2006, that figure rose to US$500 million.
