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  • Marconi

    Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraph. Most commenly known to be sold to ships like Titanic for exampe.
  • Lee De Forest

    Lee De Forest
    Lee De Forest is credited in creating and audition tube, which is a vacuum tube that amplified signals sending a stonger transmissions of sound and signal. It is widely believed that a canadian inventor, Reginald Fessendum, actually came up with the idea but was never credited.
  • Radio Stations Arise

    Radio Stations Arise
    First radio station to be ever created and broadmcasted. Later to be renamed KDKA. Even to this day it stil is a radio station in Pittsburg, PA. When boadcasting music since there was no direct line that allowed them to broadcast music they put the microphone to the phonograph to listen to the music and broadcast out.
  • THE CREATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS

    THE CREATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS
    WEAF hired a 10 minute commercial for $50 for an apartment in NYC. Radio and almost any form communicative forms now adays are only supported and make money by sellinng spots on their channel for advertisements and charging them for it to show to the public or be heared on the radio.