Communication History

By timdaly

  • Telegraph invented

  • US accepts telegraph

  • First development of baseball

  • Harvard v Oxford crew race shows interest in following sports

  • Harvard starts playing rugby

  • Grahm Bell invents phone

  • First big college football game

  • Henry Heitz invents mobile phone

  • Kony gets asked to broadcast americas cup on wireless telegraph

  • begin experimenting with radio

  • First commercial radio station on air

  • Boxing match covered

  • Graham McNamaee calls first world series

  • Golden age of radio

  • Television Technology is demonstrated at the world fair

  • Joe dimaggio 56 game hit streak

  • Over half a million spent on radio advertising

  • Televison jumps radio

  • First big nfl game

  • First blimp shot

  • First olympics televised

  • Sattelite technology produced

  • First instant replay

  • Israeli Olympic team hostige situation (jim Mckay)

  • ESPN goes on air