Topic Reading-Vol.1941-8/4/2017

Dear MEL Topic Readers,

Why the radio is one of history's most important inventions

Do you still listen to the radio often? Unless you sit in a car, you might not have turned on the radio for a while, either for AM, Amplitude Modulation, or FM, Frequency Modulation, station.

Ever since the first entertainment program was transmitted to the general public on December 24, 1906, radio had been the popular and dominant broadcasting tool until TV and the Internet took the place. At first, it was housed in a wooden box and placed in the most prominent position in the houses. Later, as technology advances, radios became so smaller and handier, and even became one of the features of the alarm clock, stereo system or radio cassette player. Now, radio is just a chip and no longer seen as a stand-alone unit.

But before forgetting this one of the most prevailing technologies of the 20^th-century, enjoy reading and learning how technologies innovated and improved this great invention.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/27/design/history-of-radios-cooper-hewitt-museum/index.html