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Marconi (an Italian inventor) sent and recieved the first radio signal in 1895. He didn't send anything important. It just showed that radio signals worked
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Inventor Le Dee Forest creates the idea fr an audion Tube. The audion tube. It is a vacuum tube that amplifies signal. This helped the radio greatly.
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The titanic crashed and radio signals were used to save some of the passeners. After the marine started using radio, they could use it to find about a crashed ship. Leading to saving many lives.
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8XK was the first radio station created. They are still here today. The new name is KDKA.
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WEAF aried the first commerical on their station. They charged 50$ for 10 minutes. This lead to more advertisement opprotunities.
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FRC was established and assigned radio staions frequencies. It stopped people from making their own stations. It also helped with getting professional people on the air.
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In the early 30s Single Sideban was created. It was created along with FM. It impoved audio quality greatly.
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In the 30s and 40s it was considered the Golden Era of Radio. This was when everybody listened to the radio. This was before TV got popular.
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TV came out at this time. People watched TV instead, because they preffered it. This took a lot of money out of the radio industry.
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The first FM radio was launched. This gave much better audio quality. People liked this.
