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Prediction Radio Waves
The Scottish physicist, James Maxwell had predicted the existence of radio waves. With the help of theories made by Albert Einstein's. And thus this was just first of many ideas and theories of radio. -
Development
Development of the radio just started at this time by Nikolai Tesla. It took place at St. Louis, Missouri. His worked had help perfect the radio we now today. -
First Signal
Italian Inventor, Guglielmo Marconi had sent out the first ever radio signal. At Marconi Station in Glace Bay, Canada. The signal had traveled across the Altanic to North America. -
Audion Tube
The original inventor of the Audion Tube was Lee De Forest. It had helped a lot by amplify the audio. Turns out a lot of people at the time had underestimated the Audion tube. -
One of the first Broadcast
Reginald Fessenden was playing his violin, singing songs and reading the bible. It was designed for more than a singke person, The goal was to financial backers. -
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize was awarded to Marconi and Karl Ferdinand. Because they had contributed to making radios or "wireless telegraphy." -
Radio Class
Charles Herold made a radio class in college. Where him and his students would broadcast music and talk on a daily basic. It had grown a big crowd while recording. -
Shut Dowm
Ordered by the government all wireless stations were forced to shut down. Causing transmitters to lose money, The only and main reason why is because the governement needed to use radios for defense purposes. That was for World War I. -
8XK
That was the original first name of the fisrt radio station that existed. It still airs today but, has chagned the name to KDKA. The owner and inventor was Frank Conrad. You can find the statopn Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. -
First Commerical
The 10 minute commerical was aried at the New York station WEAF. Also the first paid commerical ever. They advertised Hawthorne Court Hotels. -
The Radio Act of 1927
The effect of the Radio Act was that everyone had to pay for license for transmitters. Since there were some radios payed for airing commericals. And others who just goofed off and didn't use commercials. Had the companies were mad since not enough people were playing attention to it. -
Radio Networks
The famous network CBS and NBC were formed. Because AT&T had broken "chain broadcasting'" for everyone. They are still around and growing popular all around. -
Big Business
During the "Great Depression" was radio's Golden Era. Radios were the only thing looking forward during that time. Most radio stations were just skyrocketing because they suddenly became popular. -
Musician Wars
With the "Great Depression" was a great time for most musicians to get some fame. Some of the foregin artists were't covered by AF. Radio stations at the time refused to have performing musicians until arrangements were made. -
Beatles
This is when radio or music started getting popular, With the beatles radios were blasting back to action. They would appear in the AM Top 40 somewhere.
