Birth of Radio
1860s → James Clark Maxwell predicted existence of electromagnetic waves
1885 → Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that a wire carrying current can be swung to produce electromagnetic waves
1890s→ Marconi sent and received the first radio signals 1901 → sent ‘S’ across the Atlantic Ocean! from England to Canada 1909 → Nobel Prize given to Marconi
1900 → Reginald Fesseden - first person to send audio via radio signals 1906 → Reginald Fesseden - sent first public broadcast
1906 → Lee de Forest - invented Audion; made live broadcasts possible