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  2. Eugene Polley - Wikipedia

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    Eugene Polley (November 29, 1915 – May 20, 2012) was an electrical engineer and engineering manager for Zenith Electronics who invented the first wireless remote control for television. Life and career

  3. List of oldest radio stations - Wikipedia

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    Consisted of 27 stations (3 owned and operated and up to 24 "phantom stations" – time leased on affiliated radio stations. WEAF chain: Broadcasting Company of America: Northeast and Midwest United States 1923–1926 Regional network of AT&T-owned radio stations with New York City radio station WEAF as its hub.

  4. Powel Crosley Jr. - Wikipedia

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    the first to introduce push-button car radios [24] introduced soap operas to radio broadcasts [37] introduced the first non-electric refrigerator (Icyball) [citation needed] introduced the first refrigerator with shelves in the door (Shelvador) [15] launched the world's most powerful commercial radio station (WLW, at 500 kW) [12]

  5. History of radio - Wikipedia

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    The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of broadcasting.

  6. Radio in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one radio receiver, while a majority did by 1931 and 75 percent did by 1937.

  7. Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown - Wikipedia

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    On August 1, 1966, the Browns submitted a patent application for their invention. Their attorneys were Polacheck and Saulsbury, a New York firm. [1]The invention consisted, at the door, of an electrically controlled lock, several lensed peepholes with covers, a vertically sliding video scanner (camera) and controlling motors, loudspeaker and microphone as well as associated electronics ...

  8. Live radio - Wikipedia

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    Live radio is sound transmitted by radio waves, as the sound happens. Modern live radio is probably [original research?] most used to broadcast sports but it is also used to transmit local news and traffic updates. Most radio that people listen to today is pre-recorded music, and the days of solely live broadcast music are generally not as present.

  9. Timeline of radio - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of radio lists within the history of radio, the technology and events that produced instruments that use radio waves and activities that people undertook. Later, the history is dominated by programming and contents, which is closer to general history .