Communications · Recorded milestone
Transatlantic radio
Recorded year1901
Guglielmo Marconi sends a wireless signal across the Atlantic.
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Led to
- Silicon crystal radio detectorRecorded · 1906enables
- Radio time signalsRecorded · 1910enables
- Storm warnings by radioRecorded · 1911enables
- Chess-playing automatonRecorded · 1912enables
- Broadcast radioRecorded · 1920enables
- Electronic televisionRecorded · 1927requires
- Radiosonde weather balloonRecorded · 1930enables
- Radio astronomyRecorded · 1932enables
- Telex business networkRecorded · 1933requires
- RadarRecorded · 1935enables
- Instrument landing systemRecorded · 1938enables
- Codebreaking machinesRecorded · 1940requires
- NMR spectroscopyRecorded · 1946requires
- First satelliteRecorded · 1957requires
- CB radioRecorded · 1958enables
- Radio pagerRecorded · 1962enables
- Cellular phone networkRecorded · 1979enables
- Cordless phoneRecorded · 1980enables
- Quantum supremacy demoRecorded · 2019requires
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.