Radio History Timeline

since we're hot in Radio topics these few past blog of mine,

so i'm sharing the Radio History Timeline for your to figure

out why i'm so into electronics and radio .... guess what ...

stop guessing lah ! ... read the below ....

anyway, the below history changes how we life today
so be gratefull and posibble to reflect the inventor below,
without them sacrificing their past life for us, you might
be still living up the tree ... wakakakaakka

A Timeline in the History of Radio

1757-1775 Benjamin Franklin works in London

1799 Volta invents electrical battery

1838 Morse demonstrates telegraphy

1861 Transcontinental telegraph by wire

1866 Transatlantic cable

1866 County Kerry transatlantic cable station

1876 Bell invents telephone

1883 Edison invents the Edison effect

1886 Hertz produces and detects electric waves

1894 Lodge invents Coherer with 200 mile range

1897 J.J.Thompson discovers the electron

1899 Wireless telegraphy

1901 Reception of transatlantic radio signals in Newfoundland from Marconi in the U.K.

1902 Poulsen-Arc radio transmitter

1903 Triode invented

1904 Radio alternator designed

1906 Catwhisker crystal detector invented

1906 Sound broadcast combines voice and music

1906 RF Continuous-wave alternator developed

1909 Shoshone transmission line

1912 RF generator invented

1914 American Radio Relay League founded

1918 Superheterodyne receiver invented

1920 Westinghouse radio station KDKA broadcasts at Pittsburgh

1924 RCA superheterodyne sold in stores

1924 Directive shortwave antenna invented

1925 Human features transmitted by television

1925 Pioneers work on radar

1927 Working television demonstrated

1928 One-way police radio communication

1931 Radioastronomy founded by detection of radio waves from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

1931 Voice of Australia first broadcaster in Southern Hemisphere

1932 Radio is important in U.S. Hoover vs. Roosevelt presidential campaign

1933 Two-way police radio communication

1933 German Ministry of Popular Education and Propaganda controls broadcasting

1933 FM invented

1934 Long range shortwave voice transmission from Byrd Antarctic Expedition

1934 Law limits broadcasting in India

1934 U.S. Federal Communications Act sets up FCC

1935 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay radio agreement

1935 International Wireless Committee code of good conduct for international broadcasts

1935 Japan broadcasts to America

1936 BBC airs first news story -- fire at London's Crystal Palace

1937 Radio has pushbuttons

1937 Radiotelescope used to find the first discrete radio sources beyond Earth and map the natural radio signals across the Milky Way

1937 U.S. Radio Code

1938 CBS broadcasts Orson Welles' "Invasion From Mars" from H.G. Wells's "War of the Worlds"

1939 Baseball televised

1939 Germany transmits internationally in 26 languages, while listening in Germany to foreign broadcast is a capital offense

1939 Atanasoff-Berry computer developed

1940s World War II brings radar and other electronics which stimulate radioastronomy

1940 FM police radio communication

1940 French General de Gaulle broadcasts from BBC to France

1940 Sudan radio serves World War II Allies

1940 News broadcasts in six languages on African Gold Coast

1941 U.S. Col. W. Donovan commission combats Axis radio propaganda

1941 Switzerland broadcasts support International Red Cross

1941 Opana radar site built

1942 Voice of America shortwave broadcasts in English, French, Italian, German

1942-1945 US Naval Computing Machine Laboratory

1943 BBC broadcasts English lessons

1943 American Forces Network on the air

1944 BBC broadcasts coded messages to Fench resistance before D-Day

1945 Yugoslavia broadcasts

1945 Military controls broadcasting in Soviet-occupied Germany

1945 Astronomers develop radioastronomy

1945 Japan's Emperor announces his country's surrender in his first radio broadcast

1946 First and brightest radio source beyond our galaxy, Cygnus A, discovered

1946 U.S. Army Signal Corps bounces radar beam off Moon

1946-1953 U.S. develops monochrome-compatible electronic color television

1946 Transistor invented will make small radios commercially feasible

1946 Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) turned on

1950-1969 Electronic technology applied to spaceflight

1951 Color television introduced in U.S.

1951 Transistors manufactured

1951 Electromagnetic radiation discovered coming from interstellar hydrogen at a radio wavelength of 21 cm

1953 First amateur radio moonbounce

1956 Germanium transistor commercialized

1957 Beeping radio signal from Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite

1959 Radio signal from first human-made object to leave Earth, USSR probe Luna 1

1959 Radio signal from first human-made object to reach another world, USSR probe Lunik 2 on the Moon

1959 Radio-photos from first spacecraft to go behind the Moon, USSR probe Lunik 3

1959 The integrated circuit (IC) is introduced

1959 First communication satellite, Echo, launched by US

1960 First radio-photos of Earth weather from orbit

1961 First human communication from space

1961 First amateur radio satellite

1962 Transatlantic reception of television signal via satellite

1962 Radio signal from first human-made object to reach another planet, Mariner 2 at Venus

1962 Telstar communications satellite

1963 First female human communication from space

1963 Arecibo radiotelescope

1965 Radio signal from human-made object at Mars, Mariner 4

1969 Human communication from the Moon

1969 Internet

1971 Human communication from a space station

1973 Radio signal from human-made object at Jupiter, Pioneer 10

1974 Radio signal from human-made object at Mercury, Mariner 10

1976 Personal computer market is born

1979 Radio signal from human-made object at Saturn, Pioneer 11

1981 Human communication from a space shuttle

1981 Sony introduces consumer synthesized radio receiver

1983 Radio signal from spacecraft leaving the Solar System, Pioneer 10

1983 Direct broadcast TV

1986 Cellular phones become international business

1986 Radio signal from human-made object at Uranus, Voyager 2

1989 Radio signal from human-made object at Neptune, Voyager 2

1991 World Wide Web

1992 XM Satellite Radio

1994 Internet radio broadcasting

1995 Digital signal processing receiver introduced

1999 Sirius Satellite Radio

2001 Software Radio chips available

2003 Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) – digital AM radio with FM-quality sound

2004 Podcasting begins

2008 Bohausiaw blog launch

 

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