First radio broadcast of a
sporting event (Dempsey/Carpentier
Heavyweight Championship Prize Fight, 2 July)
1922
Alexander Graham Bell dies
at his summer home in Beinn Breagh, near
Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
(2 August). Telephone
service is suspended for one minute
(6:25pm-6:26pm) on the entire
telephone system in the United States
and Canada during the funeral
service (4 August)
British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) is formed. (It would
receive it's Royal Charter
in 1927).
1923
Meetings at New York and
Chicago of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers (AIEE) are linked
by long distance lines
connected to loudspeakers so that both
meetings could follow the
same program (14 February).
The Combined Line and
Recording (CLR) method of handling toll
calls over long distances
(100 miles or more) is introduced
experimentally by Bell Systems. It
reduces the handling of toll
calls from 13 minutes (in 1920) to 7 minutes.
1926
The first public test of
radiotelephone service from New York to London.
1927
First public demonstration
of long distance transmission of
television.
Formal opening of telephone
service between the US and Mexico, and
also, Mexico- London, via New York.
1928
A joint meeting of the AIEE
and the British IEE is held over
radiotelephone channels, with the
respective groups assembled in
New York and London.
