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  • Spark Era

    1895–1920
  • First Successful Radio Transmission

    1/1/95
  • First Voice Transmission

    1/1/00
  • Tesla begins construction of Wardenclyffe Tower

    7/12/01
  • First Transatlantic Radio Transmission

    12/12/01
  • First Radio Signal from North America to Britain

    12/1/02
  • First AM Entertainment Public Broadcast

    12/24/06
  • First Broadcast Station

    1909
  • Wireless Ship Act

    1910
  • RMS Titanic Sinks

    1912
  • First Regular Broadcasts - 9XM

    1916
  • First Clear Transmission of Human Speech

    1919
  • AM Broadcast Era

    1920–2017
  • Spark-Gap Telegraphy Stopped

    1920
  • First Amateur Broadcast License - 8MK

    8/20/20
  • First News Broadcast

    8/31/20
  • First Commercial Broadcast License

    10/12/20
  • 5XY Starts Broadcasting (Later KUT)

    1921–1927
  • First Two-Way Mobile Radio

    1923
  • Galvin Manufacturing Founded

    1928
  • First Motorola Car Radio

    1930
  • First FM Broadcast Station

    1937
  • FM Broadcast Era

    1937–2017
  • Analog Broadcast Television Era

    1939–2009
  • Handi-Talkie Radio

    1940
  • First FM Portable Two-Way Radio

    10/1/43
  • Prediction: Geosynchronous Telecommunications Satellite

    Oct 1, 1945
  • First Car Radiotelephone Calls

    1/1/46
  • Dick Tracy's 2-Way Wrist Radio

    Jan 13, 1946
  • First Commercially Produced Transistor Radio

    1954
  • Early Pager

    1955
  • KUT Returns to the Air

    1958
  • GE Progress Line VHF Trunk Mount Radio

    1960
  • Satellite Era

    1962–2017
  • Telstar Launched

    Jul 10, 1962
  • Star Trek Communicator (TOS)

    1964
  • First Geosynchronous Telecommunication Satellite

    Aug 19, 1964
  • National Amateur 2 meter FM Band Plan

    1972
  • Drake TR-22C Portable FM Transceiver

    1973
  • Prototype DynaTAC Portable Cellular System

    Apr 3, 1973
  • TDMA, CDMA Digital Cellular Technology Patented

    1980
  • World's First Commercial Portable Cellular Phone

    Sep 21, 1983
  • First Wireless Local Area Network

    1990
  • World's First GSM Cellular System

    1991
  • First Internet Radio with Music Licensing

    1995
  • StarTAC Wearable Phone

    1996
  • High Definition Broadcast Television Era

    1996–2017
  • Podcast Mechanism invented

    1/1/01
  • Broadband Era

    2001–2017
  • iTunes

    2001–2017
  • iPod

    2001
  • Apple Adds Podcasts to iTunes

    6/1/05
  • iPhone

    6/29/07
  • US Switch to HD TV

    6/12/09
  • Skype Video Calling for iOS

    2011
  • Apple iPhone 4S

    2011