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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