informative documentaries about radio's past

Feb 7, 2025 ... Who really invented radio? ... On 14 May 1897, the Italian Guglielmo Marconi carried out the first radio transmission in history. Based on Hertz's ... He used radio waves to transmit Morse code and the instrument he used became known as the radio. In 1906, Marconi shared the Nobel Prize for physics with ... ... created by Theremin decades before. RFID was, however, officially invented in 1983 by Charles Walton when he filed the first patent with the word 'RFID'. Aug 12, 2021 ... In late November of 1925, in a new show called “Barn Dance” on Nashville's WSM radio station, announcer George D. "Judge" Hay introduced 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 ... 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 ... Edwin Armstrong invented Frequency Modulation radio (FM radio) in 1933, but his employer, RCA, ignored and even boycotted the invention. FM radio vastly ... Nov 11, 2022 ... Edison, his team, and competitors worked over the years to develop a better microphone for those wax cylinders. (At the time wax cylinder ... 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 ... Jan 10, 2023 ... When Marconi invented radio back in 1895, he predicted, “In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.” Audio has been a ...