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In the early radio age, content typically included a balance of comedy, drama, news, music and sports reporting. Variety radio programs included the most famous Hollywood talent of the day. During the 1920s, radio focused on musical entertainment, the Grand Ole Opry , has been focused on broadcasting country music since it began in 1925.
Marconi created the radio. Maybe Bernie meant to say 'mambo.' Maybe it means: If you don't like this music, some really angry snakes are gonna come out of the speakers.1" Craig Chaquico (Starship guitarist): "Marconi's the guy who invented the radio, and his style of music was the mamba. But listen to the radio now. Do you hear any mamba?
[1] [2] Developed in 1902 by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi [1] [2] [3] from a method invented in 1895 by New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford [4] it was used in Marconi wireless stations until around 1912, when it was superseded by vacuum tubes. [5] It was widely used on ships because of its reliability and insensitivity to vibration.
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi [11] [12] was born in Palazzo Marescalchi in Bologna on 25 April 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme who lived in the countryside of Pontecchio) and his Irish wife Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, sister of Scottish naturalist James Sligo Jameson, and ...
Vatican Radio (Italian: Radio Vaticana; Latin: Statio Radiophonica Vaticana) is the official broadcasting service of Vatican City. Established in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi , today its programs are offered in 47 languages, and are sent out on short wave , DRM , medium wave , FM , satellite and the Internet .
Marconi transmitted radio signals for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) at the end of 1895. [102] Marconi was awarded a patent for radio with British patent No. 12,039, Improvements in Transmitting Electrical Impulses and Signals and in Apparatus There-for. The complete specification was filed 2 March 1897.
The New Brunswick Naval Radio Station was the principal wartime communication link between the United States and Europe, using the callsign NFF. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted by NFF in 1918. Ownership of the station, along with Marconi's other US stations, were transferred from the Navy to RCA in 1920.
The Regency TR-1, which used Texas Instruments' NPN transistors, was the world's first commercially produced transistor radio in 1954. Size: 3×5×1.25 inch (7.6×12.7×3.2 cm) Following development of transistor technology, bipolar junction transistors led to the development of the transistor radio.