History of Radio Infographic

HISTORY OF RADIO RADIO IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS IN RECENT HISTORY, AND PAVED THE ROAD FOR ADVANCED COMMUNICATION, EXPLORATION, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MUSIC DISCOVERY. SINCE ITS BIRTH IN THE LATE 1890S, RADIO HAS EVOLVED TO FIT THE NEEDS OF THE TIMES. WE TRACE IRS JOURNEY FROM TESLA TO TURNTABLE FM TESLA Transmission of radio frequency energy is frequently exhibited in Nikola Tesla's experiments MARCONI Guglielmo Marconi built a wireless system capable of transmitting signals at long BIRTH OF RADIO distance 1890 1892 1895 1897 Tesla applies for two crucial U.S radio patents 1900 Reginald Fassenden sends a weak transmission over airwaves FLEMING VALVE John Fleming invents the 1901 vacuum tube diode that later TRANSATLANTIC helps Lee deForest create the Marconi conducts the first succesful three-element vacuum tube transatlantic radio communication called the Audion 1905 1904 1902 REVERSAL OF FORTUNE The Poulsen-Arc radio The U-S patent office reverses transmitter is invented the patent awarded to Tesla and RADIO AUDIOCAST Fessenden uses an Alexanderson awards Marconi with the patent alternator and rotary spark plug for the invention of the radio transmitter to make the first radio audio broadcast The Wireless Ship Act requires all U.S ships travelling over 200 miles off the coast to be equipped with wireless radio RADIO ARRIVES FIRESIDE CHATS People turn to the radio for entertainment and comfort during the Great Depression The government releases its control of all patents, and the Radio Corporation of America is established 1933 FM RADIO 1920 1923 1937 W1XOJ in Massachusetts FIRST RADIO STATIONS RADIO ACT The Radio Act of 1927 re-assigns stations to clear frequencies and makes radio stations operate in the pulic's interest Several radio stations claim to becomes the first be the first public radio station EM radio station INVASION FROM MARS CBS broadcasts Orson Welles' adaptation of Worlds on a Halloween episode of War of the the popular show Mercury Theatre on the Air MARCONI'S PATENT The U-S. Supreme Court reverses the patent issued to Marconi, helping the U.S. government yo avoid paying damages to the Marconi Company for patent use duting World War I RADIO AND THE SPACE AGE 1963 1961 1954 1950 TELSTAR The world's The first amateur radio TRANSISTOR RADIO Regency instroduces the pocket transistor radio, the TR-1, WHich was powered by a standard 22,5V battery RADIO SUFFERS Television is auch a novelty that big stars, programs, and satellite is launched technology focuses on space, and radio is different advertisers defect from radio to TV RDS PROTOCOL BIRTH OF INTERNET RADIO 1987 1990 1994 RDS is shown to the public in car radios and stationary THE DIGITAL AGE WXYC Becomes the first radio tuners at the internationale station to Funkausstellung in Berlin broadcast on the Internet REAL AUDIO Progressive Networks releases RealAudio, which offers AM-radio quality sound in real time Sonicwave.com becomes the first Internet radio station Pandora Radio is founded under the name Savage Beast 2003 2000 1999 1998 A NEW SENSATION Online Internet radio is COPYRIGHT TROUBLE The Digital Millenium Copyright Actforces Internet radio broadcasts to pay additional royalty fees in Sirius Satellite Radio is founded valued at $49 million PODCASTING Aneologism of broadcast and Ipod, podcasting's success caused radio businesses to contrast to traditional radio stations, which only pay publishing royalties reconsider established preconceptions about audiences, production, and distribution Howard Stern ditches terrestrial radio for Sirus Satellite Radio Spotify adds radio to its repertoire SURVIVAL MASTERY 2007 2008 Source: survival-mastery.com 2011 Nanotube radio is STREAMING invented, small POPULARITY enough to fit in a single living cell 1995 1996 1938 1943 GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO VACUUM TUBE AGE 786L 7007 9007 906L 1912 1919