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Module 1 - Intro To Comm System (Part 3)

The document outlines a timeline of key events in the development of electronic communication from 1903 to 1912, including inventions like the radio, directional antennas, amplitude modulation, and vacuum tubes as well as early radio broadcasts and regulation.

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Module 1 - Intro To Comm System (Part 3)

The document outlines a timeline of key events in the development of electronic communication from 1903 to 1912, including inventions like the radio, directional antennas, amplitude modulation, and vacuum tubes as well as early radio broadcasts and regulation.

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TIMELINE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

1903 John Fleming invented the two-electrode vacuum-tube


rectifier.
1904 First radio transmission of music at Graz, Austria.
1905 Marchese Guglielmo Marconi invented the directional
radio antenna.
1906 Reginald Fessenden invented amplitude modulation (AM).
Reginald Fessenden broadcasted the first radio program of
voice and music in the US.
Lee DeForest invented the triode vacuum tube.
TIMELINE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

1907 Reginald Fessenden invented a high-frequency electric


generator that produces radio waves with a frequency of
100 kHz.
1908 General Electric developed a 100-kHz, 2-kW alternator for
radio communications.
1910 The Radio Act of 1910 is the first occurrence of
government regulation of radio technology and services.
1912 The Radio Act of 1912 in the US brought order to the radio
bands by requiring station and operator licenses and
assigning blocks of frequency spectrum to existing users.

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