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Even President Warren G. Harding, whose May 1922 speech to the Washington, D.C. Chamber of Commerce was the first radio broadcast by a president, [94] had a radio installed in the White House. [95] The existence of early radio stations encouraged many young people to build their own crystal sets (with ear phones) to listen to the new technical ...
On February 17, 1919, station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin in Madison broadcast human speech to the public at large. 9XM was first experimentally licensed in 1914, began regular Morse code transmissions in 1916, and its first music broadcast in 1917. Regularly scheduled broadcasts of voice and music began in January 1921.
1920s: Radio was first used to transmit pictures visible as television. 1926: Official Egyptian decree to regulate radio transmission stations and radio receivers. [40] Early 1930s: Single sideband (SSB) and frequency modulation (FM) were invented by amateur radio operators. By 1940, they were established commercial modes.
Milestones in radio: the first half century (1895–1945). The UNESCO courier (February 1997), p. 16–21; Radio Review/Radio Listeners Guide (1925–1929), Broadcasting Yearbook (1935–2010), World Radio TV Handbook (1947–) Berg, Jerome S. The early shortwave stations: a broadcasting history through 1945 (2013) radioheritage.net
Made the first radiophonic broadcast in Brazil, but the first radio officially acknowledged was Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (actually, Rádio MEC). Also, it is one of the oldest stations in the world. [List entry too long] First Australian experiment in the broadcast of music: n/a AWA; Ernest Fisk; Sydney: 8 August 1919 AM [11]
In 1983, KDAY-AM became the first radio station to play wall-to-wall rap music, thanks to an ambitious new music director and some soon-to-be famous DJs.
Braun invented the phased array antenna, which led to the development of radar, smart antennas, and MIMO, in 1905 [30] and shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". [31] The first civilian radio broadcast in Germany was a Christmas concert on December 22, 1920. [32]
Richard H. Ranger, an electrical engineer working at Radio Corporation of America (RCA), invented a method for sending photographs through radio transmissions. He called his system the wireless photoradiogram, in contrast to the fifty-year-old telefacsimile devices which used first telegraphic wires, and then later was adapted to use the newer ...