History of the Radio

The radio, as we know it today, owes its existence to two previous inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. In 1895, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi transmitted and received the first radio signal, proving the possibility of radio communication. This event marked the first time a transatlantic radiotelegraph was successful.
When radio was first used, it did not transmit audio as it does today, but signals of dots and dashes similar to Morse code. There are two accounts of the human voice first being transmitted by radio, and it is unclear which is authentic. Natan B. Stubblefield transmitted the phrase "Hello Rainey" in 1892 in Murray, Kentucky. The first daily radio programs began in 1920 with the broadcasted return of the Harding-Cox election. Today, radio has become such a commonplace form of technology, most people hardly even notice it. However, the forefathers of radio technology surely had no idea that one day a radio would be standard in every car or that we would even listen to radio stations over the Internet.