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. 


A Timeline in the History of Radio
1799
Volta Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery
1838
Morse demonstrates telegraphy

1861
Transcontinental telegraph by wire

1876
Bell invents telephone

1883
Edison invents the Edison effect

Note: Edison effect is a emission of electrons from a hot cathode into a vacuum
1886
Hertz produces and detects electric waves
1897
J.J.Thompson discovers the electron
1899
Wireless telegraphy
1904
Radio alternator designed
1912
RF generator invented
1914
American Radio Relay League founded

1918
Superheterodyne receiver invented
1924
Directive shortwave antenna invented
1925
Human features transmitted by television
1925
Pioneers work on radar

1928
One-way police radio communication

1931
Radioastronomy founded by detection of radio waves from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
1933
Two-way police radio communication
1933
FM invented

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

1942
Voice of America shortwave broadcasts in English, French, Italian, German
1944
BBC broadcasts coded messages to Fench resistance before D-Day
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
Transistor invented will make small radios commercially feasible

1950-1969
Electronic technology applied to spaceflight
1951
Electromagnetic radiation discovered coming from interstellar hydrogen at a radio wavelength of 21 cm
1953
First amateur radio moonbounced
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
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
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
Internet television 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 

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