Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio broadcast ..
Date:
1922-30
Publisher:
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company [etc.]
Volume:
Radio broadcast ..
Leaf #:
000138
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Broadcast supported home listeners of the new technology of radio – for building or buying a receiving set to explaining the technology used by the new radio stations. Throughout the magazine shows the cultural influence of radio as it evolved from hobbyist to mainstream. -- David Pierce, 2011
Date Added:
July 17, 2022
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RADIO BROADCAST Chief Operator and part of Detroit News Radio Laboratory These concerts were enjoyed by no one save such amateurs as happened to be listening in. Everything was found to be successful and satisfactory, and, on Aug. 31, which was the primary day, it was announced that returns from the local, state, and congressional primaries would be sent to the public by means of the radio. The News of Sept. i, carried the following announcement; "The sending of the election returns by the Detroit News Radiophone Tuesday night was fraught with romance, and must go down f'ie history of man's conquest of the elements i gigantic step in his progress. In the four hours that the apparatus, set up in an out-of-the-way corner of the News building, was hissing and whirring its message into space, few realized that a dream and a prediction had come true. The news of the world was being given forth through this invisible trumpet to the waiting crowds in the unseen market place." It was Aug. 31, then, which marked the beginning of wireless telephony as a social service. On that day the dream of actual vocal communication between points far distant and without any physical union came true on an astonishingly large scale. The public of Detroit and its environs was then made to