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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP75: We Are Echoes—The Birth Of Radio (1887 - 1912)
Description: In Breaking Walls Episode 75 we go back in time to the beginning of radio to tell the story of how this medium began.
Highlights:
* Why the Blizzard of 1888 played such an important role in the need for wireless telegraphy
* Who Was Heinrich Hertz? What experiment made him the father of Hertzian Waves?
* What Oliver Lodge, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, and Amos DollBear have in common
* Guglielmo Marconi, father of radio?
* The benefits to wireless telegraphy
* David Sarnoff — His start between 1900 - 1906
* Why the press want to get involved
* Lee Deforest — Inventor, Fraud, or both?
* What incredibly important event happened in D...