A Timeline in the History of Radio
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1799
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Volta Italian
physicist known for the invention of the battery
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1838
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Morse
demonstrates telegraphy
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1861
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Transcontinental
telegraph by wire
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1876
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Bell
invents telephone
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1883
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Edison
invents the Edison effect
Note: Edison effect is a emission of electrons from a
hot cathode into a vacuum
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1886
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Hertz
produces and detects electric waves
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1897
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J.J.Thompson
discovers the electron
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1899
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Wireless
telegraphy
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1904
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Radio
alternator designed
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1912
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RF
generator invented
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1914
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American Radio Relay
League founded
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1918
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Superheterodyne
receiver invented
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1924
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Directive
shortwave antenna invented
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1925
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Human
features transmitted by television
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1925
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Pioneers
work on radar
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1928
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One-way
police radio communication
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1931
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Radioastronomy founded by
detection of radio waves from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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1933
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Two-way
police radio communication
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1933
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FM
invented
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1937
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Radiotelescope
used to find the first discrete radio sources beyond Earth and map the
natural radio signals across the Milky Way
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1942
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Voice of
America shortwave broadcasts in English, French, Italian, German
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1944
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BBC
broadcasts coded messages to Fench resistance before D-Day
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1945
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Astronomers
develop radioastronomy
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1945
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Japan's
Emperor announces his country's surrender in his first radio broadcast
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1946
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First
and brightest radio source beyond our galaxy, Cygnus A, discovered
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1946
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Transistor
invented will make small radios commercially feasible
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1950-1969
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Electronic
technology applied to spaceflight
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1951
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Electromagnetic
radiation discovered coming from interstellar hydrogen at a radio wavelength
of 21 cm
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1953
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First amateur radio moonbounced
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1957
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Beeping
radio signal from Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite
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1959
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Radio
signal from first human-made object to leave Earth, USSR probe Luna 1
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1959
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Radio
signal from first human-made object to reach another world, USSR probe Lunik
2 on the Moon
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1959
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Radio-photos
from first spacecraft to go behind the Moon, USSR probe Lunik 3
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1959
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The integrated
circuit (IC) is introduced
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1959
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First
communication satellite, Echo, launched by US
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1960
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First
radio-photos of Earth weather from orbit
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1961
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First
human communication from space
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1961
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First amateur radio
satellite
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1962
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Transatlantic
reception of television signal via satellite
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1962
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Radio
signal from first human-made object to reach another planet, Mariner 2 at
Venus
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1963
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First
female human communication from space
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1963
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Arecibo
radiotelescope
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1965
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Radio
signal from human-made object at Mars, Mariner 4
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1969
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Human
communication from the Moon
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1969
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Internet
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1971
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Human
communication from a space station
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1973
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Radio
signal from human-made object at Jupiter, Pioneer 10
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1981
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Human
communication from a space shuttle
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1981
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Sony
introduces consumer synthesized radio receiver
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1983
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Radio
signal from spacecraft leaving the Solar System, Pioneer 10
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1983
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Direct
broadcast TV
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1986
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Cellular
phones become international business
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1986
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Radio
signal from human-made object at Uranus, Voyager 2
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1989
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Radio
signal from human-made object at Neptune, Voyager 2
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1991
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World
Wide Web
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1992
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XM
Satellite Radio
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1994
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Internet
radio broadcasting
Internet television broadcasting |
1995
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Digital
signal processing receiver introduced
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1999
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Sirius
Satellite Radio
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2001
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Software
Radio chips available
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2003
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Digital
Radio Mondiale (DRM) – digital AM radio with FM-quality sound
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2004
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Podcasting
begins
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Saturday, 21 June 2014
A Timeline in the History of Radio
We bring you back to the history of radio communication. Radio communication plays vital role in world war during the time. It changed human history multiple times. Now we take a look on the marking point.
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