How it started...

-1860s, a Scottish physicist by the name of James Clerk Maxwell predicted how radio waves could exist.

-1866, Mahloon Loomis was able to make a kite connected to a meter make another one move which was the first proof that wireless comunication was possible.

Mahloon Loomis (Click picture for source).

-1878, David E. Hughes used a clockwork transmitter to send morse code.

-1886 Heinrich Rudolph Hertz showed that rapid changes in electric current could be projected into space similar to light and heat.

-1888 Hertz used a sparkgap transmitter to create and measure the Ultra High Frequency range.

-1891 Nikola Tesla began his research into wireless technology, he was able to reliably create radio waves and different frequencies, successfully have demonstrations of radio, and send long-distance signals. He also managed to obtain a U.S. patent for the invention of the radio.

-1899 U.S. Army communicated via radio with a lightship off of Fire Island, New York.

-1901 Radio telegraph service implemented across 5 Hawaiin Islands.

-1903 Messages were carried between President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII.

-1905 Naval battle of Port Arthur (Russo-Japanese War) had results transmitted via radio.

-1906 Weather Bureau begins to experiment with radio transmissions in an attempt to pass on weather information faster.

-1910 Regular radio-telegraph service opened across the Atlantic Ocean.

-1912 First radio-telegraph across the Pacific allowed communication between San Francisco and Hawaii.

-Reginald Fessenden and Lee de Forest found a way to allow multiple signals to be transmitted simultaneously via the inventory of the Amplitude Modulation (AM) radio. This replaced spark-gap transmitters because they consumed the entire spectrum’s bandwidth.

-1933 Edwin H. Armstrong invents the Frequency Modulated (FM) radio which is designed to mitigate static from outside sources such as electrical equipment and the atmosphere.

-1947 Bell Labs invents the transistor.

-1954 Sony (at the time, a small Japanese company) launches the transistor radio.

-1965 First master FM Antenna system is established on the Empire State Building in New York City, designed to allow the multiple simultaneous FM stations to be transmitted from a single source.