exploring how radio served as a primary source of entertainment, news, and connection for people during the economic hardships of the Great Depression

NIHF Inductee Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio by building equipment to transmit electrical signals through the air from one end of his house to the ... Oct 30, 2018 ... When was the first public radio broadcast in the UK? When was ... In Our Time: The Invention of Radio (BBC Radio 4) · History of the BBC ... I built a crystal radio in 1952 when I was 12 years old. It came as a kit from Allied Radio in Chicago for $2.50. I spent many an hour down in our basement ... Experiments by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz between 1880 and 1890 proved the existence of electromagnetic waves. His successful work took place after earlier ... Petersburg University on 7 May 1895. Aleksandr Popov Developed the First Radio Capable of Distinguishing Morse Code. Aleksandr Popov A year after his 1895 ... Jul 26, 2023 ... Let's take a closer look at radio advertising history and how audio ads have advanced over the years, from the very first radio commercial to ... Oct 5, 2018 ... By the time I was born, radio had been around for over 20 years, but we didn't have television yet. In the evenings we had a leisurely dinner, ... In 1893 the inventor Nikolai Tesla demonstrated a wireless radio in St. Louis, Missouri. Despite this demonstration, it was Guglielmo Marconi who is often ... Feb 8, 2018 ... Marconi deliberately muddied the waters when presenting “his” invention at a lecture at the Royal Institution on 13 June 1902. As Probir K ... Oct 30, 2020 ... In 1920, employees of inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse hit upon an idea to boost radio sales by providing programming that ...