radio history

By chickenchacken

  • first radio invention

    1895, young Italian named Guglielmo Marconi invented what he called "the wireless telegraph"

  • amplified signals 1906

    1906 lee de forest created (or borrowed the idea for) the audion tube, a vacuum tube that amplified signals

  • radio station 1920

    1920 8XK renamed KDKA

  • how they made there money 1922

    they sell advertising and commercial in 1922 WEAF aired a 10 minute commercial or toll broadcast, for an apartment complex charging 50 dollars

  • established FRC in 1927

    organized the licensing of transmetter assigning radio station frequencies

  • the 30's and 40's

    middle of great depression. radio prevented a escape from the great depression

  • famous shows of the golden area

    little orphan Annie
    superman
    gun smoke
    the shadow
    dick tracy
    $64 dollar question
    our miss brooks

  • golden area

    the best time for the radio everyone had one most money