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Marconi is the first to send and receive a radio signal, though some think he stole credit for it.
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Lee Deforest "borrowed" the idea for the audion tube from Reginald Fessendon. Audion tube was used to amplify signals.
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The Metropolitan Opera is one of the first musical performances aired on radio and becomes a weekly show for nearly 90 years
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As the Titanic sank, many distress signals were went out using radio. Afterwards, spark gap transmitters became universal on large ships.
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The first radio station, KDKA, is opened by Frank Conrad.
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WEAF aired a ten minute long commercial advertising an apartment complex which cost 50 dollars. Radio stations begin to make money off airing commercials.
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Personal radio stations called Uncle Charlies led to the creation of the FRC which later became the FCC. The FCC regulates what is bridcast on the radio.
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FM radio was patented by Edwin H. Armstrong.
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Popular songwriter George Gershwin, composer of Rhapsody in Blue, gets his own Radio program
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BBC airs first news story -- fire at London's Crystal Palace
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CBS broadcasts Orson Welles' "Invasion From Mars" from H.G. Wells's "War of the Worlds"
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Elvis records his first record at Sun Records
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Regency introduced a pocket transistor radio, the TR-1, powered by a standard 22.5V Battery.
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Radio is used to communicate with the astronaughts on the moon
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XM satelite radio is invented