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1890
The ides of the first radio were introduced in 1890 by Guglielmo Marconi. -
1895
His idea took off in 1895 when the wireless morse code message was sent from more than a kilometer away. -
1900
By the 1900 there were four competing wireless streaming. -
1914
By 1914 there was an employe Canadian of Thomas Edison’s labs that had worked with cheap General Electric that had built alternators that could travel over thousands of miles with such powerful wavelengths to transmit voice and music. -
1919
In 1919 the radio company Marconi’s resources were sold to General Electric and with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA, which spawned NBC Radio). -
1928-1929
The big radio boom began as people found it more reliable and easier to get their news. RCA’s stock price went from $85 in the 1928 to being $500 by the year summer 1929. The stock market of 1929 went down to $20 per share. -
1930
In 1930 the first radio in a car and was done by the Galvin brothers’ . -
1939
By 1939 at less 80 percent of the United States population owned a radio.