Sunday, October 10, 2010

Sept. 29, 1920: Radio Goes Commercial

1920: The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh advertises ready-made radio receivers that can pick up a local broadcast station. Commercial radio is just weeks away.
Frank Conrad was assistant chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh. He’d been interested in radio since 1912. To settle a $5 bet (around $110 in today’s money) [...]

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