Radio/Broadcasting History

  • Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves

  • Radios began to appear on ships at sea.

  • Nikola Tesla wirelessly transmitted electromagnetic energy.

  • Marchese Guglielmo Marconi establishes first radio link between England and France

  • American scientist R.A. Fessenden transmists human speech via radiowaves.

  • First transAtlantic signal sent by Marconi from Ireland to Canada.

  • Valdemar Poulsen makes an arc transmission that generates continuous radio waves receivable over 150 miles.

  • First radio program of voice and music broadcast in the U.S.

  • First radio transmission from an airplane.