The creaking rocking chair is all that can be heard in the room. Pa is reading his paper while ma finishes up the dinner dishes and the kids play with wooden cars on the living room floor. No i-pods, no computers, no cable television, no network television. No radio. The year is 1918. The lights are electric and there's a car in the driveway. But inside, all is silent, and the entertainments are either self-made or drawn into the mind off a printed page. But all of this is about to change due to technological advances of the last several years. To Send Messages Over the Air Just before the dawn of the 20th century, the German scientist developed two important ideas: that the nature of light can be boiled down to electromagnetics and that electromagnetic waves behave the same way as light. The goal was to be able to transmit electromagnetic waves in a way that was useful--could they transmit comprehensible sound, including the human voice? In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi was able t...
Old Time Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio