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sound waves
1878: David E. Hughes was the first to transmit and receive radio waves when he noticed that his induction balance caused noise in the receiver of his homemade telephone -
Inventor
Guglielmo Marconi, was Italian he sent and received the first raido singnal in 1895 -
Tesla Tower
July 1901: Tesla begins construction of his Wardenclyffe Tower wireless transmission facility. The project ran out of funding by 1905 and was never completed. -
It begians
In February, Marconi starts conducting more organized and documented tests sailing on board the SS Philadelphia west from Great Britain recording signals sent daily from the Poldhu station showing reception up to 2,100 miles (3,400 km) -
Award time!!
The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio -
U.S
The Supreme Court of the United States, in a case on radio patents involving the U.S. government vs the Marconi Company, restores some of the prior patents of Oliver Lodge, John Stone Stone, and Nicola Tesla. The decision was not about Marconi's original radio patents and the court declared that their decision had no bearing on Marconi's claim as the first to achieve radio communication, just that since Marconi's claim to certain patents were questionable, he could not claim in -
Color TV
1963: Color television was commercially transmitted, and the first radio communication satellite, telstar was launched. In the late 1960s, the U.S. long-distance telephone network began to convert to a digital network, employing digital radios for many of its links -
Its a secuess
The digital transmissions began to be applied to broadcasting.
