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Invention
Marconi , Italian scientist who is believed to have invented the first radio , and also broadcasted and recieved the first signal free of lines. -
Audion Vacuum Triode
Lee De Forest, a detrimental device to the Radio of America coroporation for the early 20th century was a amplifier that boosted the power of the radio signal without this invention radio would have been completly different. -
Titanic Sank
The titanic sank on April 15th, 1912 which was a disaster but could of been a tragedy if radio brodcasts didn't help save some of the suvivors but signaling in what exactly happened . -
KDKA
A radio station that still exists today in Pitsburgh Pennsylvania created Frank Conrad and is important because this was the first commerical radio brodcast station. -
Federal Radio Commission.
The first federal regulator in the radio field , they gave out liscening for transmitters and assigned frequencies they also required each station to have call letters. -
Federal Communications Commission
independent goverement agency that took over after the FRC was closed they regulated everything including Radio instead of just having a seperate branch for all different types of communications.