Thursday, October 29, 2015

Golden Age of Radio (Lecture Response)

It's weird to think it took like 20 years for radio to even be recognized as a viable medium to use. Invented in 1892, and KDKA began in 1920. I actually kinda feel bad for Tesla, he was never seen as the genius he was in his lifetime. Though he's recognized now, he still lingers in the shadow of Edison. Anyway, a preacher tweaked the invention to be broadcast along multiple networks, and since he had the occupation he did its easy to see where he got the inspiration from. Not preaching, I am of course talking about how God transmitted the idea right to his brain. 10 years after the preacher revised the system, a station called Amrad broadcasted, one of the first to do so on a regular daily schedule. In 1922, there was 100,000 radios and by 1935 22 million homes had radios. This is whats called the golden age, which included the Hindenburg disaster and the infamous War of the Worlds prank.

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