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Nikola Tesla
The first one to use radio communication was Nikola Tesla, he tested this out in 1893 in St. Louis, Missouri. -
Guglielmo Marconi
Marconi made the first wirless radio system and made it able to broadcast long distances. -
Radio communication
In 1901 Marconi made the first radio broadcasting system. -
The first radio broadcast
Reginald Fessenden made the first broadcast on Christmas eve by reading a bible verse and playing his violen and singing a song. -
Lee de Forest
de Forest in 1907 provided Navy Fleets with wirless telephone, an arc transmitter and phonograph records. -
Collage broadcasting
From 1912-1917 Charles Herrald made the first collage broadcasting in San Jose California. -
World war one
From 1914-1918 radio broadcasting was used by the government for defense purposes and this was because of the importance that radio broadcasting had. -
Radio shows
By 1920 radio stations began broadcasting commercials which at the time were broadcasted by Western Electrics and AT&T who were the main broadcasters back then. After a while radio shows were even made for family entertainment. -
Musician war
Radios had become such a huge thing back in the day, now days people only listen to music on the radio. Well believe it or not broadcasters didn't want to broadcast music on the radio. -
FM radio
When radio was invented the only stations were AM stations which had very bad qulity in sound. So a man named Edwin Armstrong invented FM which had better quility and played all day till midnight until the 1970's -
World War 2
War had broken out in Europe because of the Nazi's invation, once again like in world war one radios were used for defence and to pick up on enemy lines. -
Television
In the late 1940's television was invented. This was bad for radios because it granted a clear visual of whats going on and radio couldn't. -
Rock and roll
In the 1950's a new era in music had been made. This new music was rock and roll which made radios start paying famous people like Elvis Presley.
