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Marconi an Italian inventor sent and received the first radio signal.
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Lee de Forest created the audition tube, a vacuum tube that amplifies signals.
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9XM was first experimentally licensed in 1914, began regular Morse code transmissions in 1916
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On February 17, 1919, station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin in Madison broadcast human speech to the public at large.
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The first radio broadcasting station named 8XK, later renamed KDKA
Created by Frank Conrad.
The radio show is still around til today in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania -
WEAF aired a 10 minute commercial or toll for an apartment complex charging $50.00 a minute
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Federal Coommunications Comission Organize the radio industry by stopping people that have radio stations but do not advertise.
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In the 30's and 40's people would listen to he radio as a void and as an escape from the things tthat were going on around them like "Great Depression".
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In 1933, FM radio was patented by inventor Edwin H. Armstrong.
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TV makes it's appearance in the late 30's
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Elvis was found dead in the bathroom.
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Titanic used radio and it saved lives
