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James Clerk Maxwell predicted the existence of radio waves
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Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, successfully demonstrated wireless telegraphy
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young Italian named Gugliemo Marconi invented what he called “the wireless telegraph” useing radio waves
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Tesla applied for first patent.
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Telegraphed the letter S from the english channel to Newfoundland
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Wireless telegraphs were created in orrder to talk to ships that were over sea. This allowed people to communicate easier.
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radiotelegraph service was instituted between five Hawaiian Islands.
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Marconi station located in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, carried an exchange or greetings between President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII. In 1905 the naval battle of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war was reported by wireless.
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Marconi shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Ferdinand Braun
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Radio's played an important role on people. 500 stations played news music and sports and dramas.
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Europe’s most famous broadcasting station, the British Broadcasting Company or BBC.
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By 1925, broadcasting is in most of the United Kingdom.
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The British Broadcasating Company got the royal charter
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This allowed the federal goverment to monitor the airways.
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Most homes had at leasat one radio in their house in the US and Europe
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Since Radio was free after the buying the reciever it was favored during the Great Depression. It was cheaper than going out for entertainment,
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Macroni sued the U.S. government in 1943 for patent infringement during World War I.
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The FM channel was added, this allowed for more programs to be aired for the BBC
