The Radio and its Effect on the Music Industry:

(Guglielmo Marconis first telegraph system)

In 1886 Heinrich Hertz took interest in electromagnetic waves and by 1887

he published experiments that proved the James Maxwells theory of
electromagnetism (1864) to be true. Maxwell was able to prove that
electromagnetic waves were capable of moving freely throughout space. The
detection of radio waves led many physicists to take interest in the subject. In 1894
Physicist Oliver lodge transmitted and received radio waves 50 meters long, in 1895
Jagadish Bose built a radio based lightening detector, and in 1896 Guglielmo
Marconi patented the first wireless telegraph system used for commercial
communication. In the early 1900s radio systems were used primarily in the way of
Morris code messages because the only capability of the technology was continuous
wave code.

During World War I the radio became an important means of communication,

both sides of the war used radio to send orders and important information between
their armies and navies. The 20th century was also when the first vacuum tubes
came in use. Vacuum tubes are a device that control electric current, were could be
used to amplify, switch, or oscillate electric current. Having the ability to amplify
electronic current was important in the process of making the radio a household
item. By the 1920s the radio had become medium for entertainment and news. FM
radios were used to clearly broadcast music. After World War II experiments and
research with the radio gave way to the development of television and innovations
for many other electromagnetic devices.
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