Cinema predates Radio predates Television
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