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waves through space
James Clerk Maxwell showed in theoretical and mathematical form in 1864 that electromagnetic waves could propagate through free space. -
wireless telegraphy
in 1894 the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the first complete, commercially successful wireless telegraphy system -
first radio station
in 1897 he established a radio station in England. Marconi would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics -
human voice voiced wirelessly over a half a mile
In 1900, Brazilian priest Roberto Landell de Moura transmitted the human voice wirelessly for a distance of approximately a half mile. -
first radio program broadcast
On Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Fessenden used a synchronous rotary-spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast, -
first broadcasted opera
on August 27, 1920, Sociedad Radio Argentina aired a live performance of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal f -
first news program broadcasted
The first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit, -
mobile phone service
In 1947 AT&T commercialized the Mobile Telephone Service. -
pocket radio
In 1954, the Regency company introduced a pocket transistor radio, -
rolling stones concert
In November 1994, a Rolling Stones concert was the "first major cyberspace multicast concert." Mick Jagger opened the concert by saying, "I want to say a special welcome to everyone that's, uh, climbed into the Internet tonight and, uh, has got into the M-bone. And I hope it doesn't all collapse."[13]