• 1900

    The canadian Reginald Aubrey Fessenden performs the first radio transmission with with human voice
  • 1913

    Edwin Howard Armstrong invents the regenerative circuit that increases the quality of emissions
  • 1935

    Edwin Armstrong describes frequency modulation (FM) for the first time. by not initially using his invention he committed suicide
  • 1940

    In this decade, the first frequency modulated station to broadcast regularly, WSM,FM from Nashville, Tenesse, begins to operate
  • 1947

    The first medium wave transistor that is carried in the hand is invented
  • 1991

    English company trevor baylis patents the first clock radio in history