Akela, my female German Shepherd Dog, shown here at 10 months old. This is Brutus, my black Alsatian who sadly passed away at the age of 10. He lived in South Africa in a city by the sea, which was ironic since he hated water. He was a wonderful, intelligent and kind friend who will be sorely missed.
Sony, who is often credited with developing the first portable radio, didn't come out with theirs until 1957. Don Pies Regency TR1 Website/via. It didn't take long for transistors to take over and for them to shrink down to integrated circuits to the point where you can now get an entire Radio Shack in an iPhone. It all started 60 years ago with this.
What year was the first radio invented? The precursor to the radio, the Tesla coil, was invented by Nikola Tesla in 1884, and Tesla's device to send a radio signal, which was ready to go, was burned up in a lab fire in 1895. Instead, Guglielmo Marconi tested his wireless signal device in 1896; many say he relied on Tesla's technology to create it.