Radio History

By lrg41
  • Guglielmo Marconi

    Guglielmo Marconi
    An Italian inventor, was the first to sent and receive radio signal in Italy.
  • Lee De Forest

    Lee De Forest
    He invented the vacuum tube that amplifies signals like a radio, but there are rumors that a Canadian inventer Reginald Ressenden came up with the idea
  • Radio Music

    Radio Music
    The very first song on a radio was a solo violin by Reginald Fessenden
  • Titanic

    Titanic
    Radio had helped Titanic passengers to survive. If they didn't have radio in the Titanic all survivors would'ed died from the freezing waters where they crashed from an iceberg.
  • Frank Conrad

    Frank Conrad
    He had made the first radio station and was named 8XK but then later named KDKA, it is still around today in Pittsburg, Pensilvania
  • WEAF

    WEAF
    WEAF had aired an 10 min. commercial or toll broadcast for an apartment complex charging $50
  • Uncle Charlie and the FRC

    Uncle Charlie and the FRC
    Uncle Charlie was so popular and many people made a radio station as the same name of Uncle Charlie, So they establish FRC to organize the lisening of a transmitter
  • Golden era

    Golden era
    this was during the 30s and 40s when it was during the great depression were people were hurting for $$$$$, then people go to radio to make them feel better of the depression
  • Edwin Armstrong

    Edwin Armstrong
    He invented the FM and it provides static-free broadcasting also it carries a full frequency range of sound
  • TV appearance

    TV appearance
    TV appeared in the late 30s, popularity grew and ADs went on TV and made radio lost money then
  • Alien Invasion

    Alien Invasion
    CBS broadcast made an adaptation of which aliens are invading and that made some listeners to panic and thought it was a real invasion
  • Telstar

    Telstar
    The first radio communication is launched in space making the world's technology focus on space
  • Digital Age

    Digital Age
    Radio experiment became to use the computers with audio cards so it can process radio signals. This cause to begin the first digital transmission to broadcast.
  • Pandora

    Pandora
    Pandora Radio is founded by a person named Savaged Beast
  • Podcast

    Podcast
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