The Radio

By Darian Demeritt
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    Radio

  • Heinrich Hertz detects and transmits radio waves

  • Nikola Tesla wirelessly transmitted electromagnetic energy.

  • Marconi establishes first radio link between England and France.

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

  • Marconi transmits telegraphic radio messages from Cornwall to Newfoundland

  • First radio transmission of music in Graz, Austria

  • Marconi invents the directional radio antennae

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

  • Radio communications gain publicity when the captain of the Montrose alerts Scotland by radio of an escaping criminal

  • First radio transmission from an airpane

  • Shortwave radio is developed. RCA is founded.

  • KDKA broadcasts the first regular licensed radio broadcast out of Pittsburgh, PA

  • RCA starts operating Radio Central on Long Island

  • March: WWJ, an AM station in Detroit, offers the University of Michigan broadcasting rights for extension lectures

  • The federal radio commission is established

  • A radio statio in NYC, WRNY begins to broadcast television shows.

  • Fm Radio was pattened by Edwin H. Armstrong

  • First pocket transistor radio

  • First sony pocket radio