Timeline

Question 1

wirelessly transmitted electromagnetic energy. He made the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis in 1893.

Answer 1

Nikola Tesla (1892 to 1893)

Question 2

filed for patent protection of his radio apparatus. He established the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company in 1897.

Answer 2

Guglielmo Marconi (1896 to 1897)

Question 3

First transAtlantic signal sent-by Marconi from Ireland to Canada

Answer 3

1901

Question 4

Amateur (today known as “ham”) radio introduced to the U.S. via a Scientific American article on “How to Construct an Efficient Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus at Small Cost.”

Answer 4

1902

Question 5

is the 1st to transmit a program of speech and music.

Answer 5

Reginald Fessenden 1906

Question 6

First radio transmission from an airplane

Answer 6

1910

Question 7

All US radio stations that are not needed are closed by the government as WWI begins

Answer 7

1917

Question 8

The first on-air advertisement was carried by a New York station

Answer 8

1922

Question 9

The first permanent national network, NBC, was formed. CBS followed a year later.

Answer 9

1926

Question 10

The Federal Radio Commission established to bring order to chaotic airwaves

Answer 10

1927

Question 11

FDR broadcast the first of his 30 “fireside chats”

Answer 11

1933

Question 12

CBS Radio broadcasts H.G. Wells’ classic The War of the Worlds. many panicked thinking it was real

Answer 12

1938

Question 13

Cellular radio telephony, with call handoff and frequency reuse, was conceived at Bell Laboratories

Answer 13

1947

Question 14

Texas Instruments produces the first COMMERCIAL TRANSISTOR RADIO, launching the portable electronic age.

Answer 14

1954

Question 15

XM Radio

Answer 15

2001