A Pictorial History Of 1920 Radio: The Early Boom

[@HDCTimes-720]

It's great to see radio history so vividly illustrated like this! The 1920s were truly a boom in radio, ushering in a new era in media. These images really highlight how technology changed people's lives at the time.

[@hollyjollydog]

Iam 70 and listen to coast to coast on a restored 1923 Atwater Kent 20, I also own a working first commercially produced 1920 Westinghouse and Amp set sold to the public, and the 😊first 1922 shortwave RA/DA set sold to the public.

[@jostoney6501]

I often think of the times when families would sit around the radio and listen to stories, dramas and the news. Now that I live in a rural area I sit and listen to sites like yours pretty much all day and all night when I'm not at work. This is a wonderful visual muy bueno! I'm pretty much in love with just about everything you do cuz the 1920s are the most intriguing parts of the 20th century ever😊

[@uralbob1]

My beautiful mother, born in1921 16:06 , told me of her dad, Edwin York, was a tremendous radio enthusiast. When my mom was a little girl, he’d let her listen to the radio (which he built) along with her brothers. She loved her dad, and he was an early adapter of this technology. I’m very sorry not to have known him. Mom deeply loved her dad.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

Love these type of video. Many kudos!

[@namuzed]

3:30 I love these transitional periods in history where new technologies are adopted so quickly they lead to these anachronistic images.

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Yesterday I listened to a baseball game from 1934 on KZbin It was a Very interesting experience

[@alman54]

I'm formerly a radio engineer. Early radio history has always fascinated me, the primitive equipment, the announcers, the programs. And the listeners. The early radio sets. All so interesting to see in these photos.

[@jeffb.2257]

Fascinating images, plus even more exciting grammar. People wrote and spoke differently in the 20s.

[@jec1ny]

Memo for anyone with access to a time machine. In 1921 the Radio Corporation of America started trading on the stock market at around $1.25 a share. By the spring of 1929 those same shares were trading for a split adjusted ~$500 per share. Just be sure to sell in early to mid 1929. By July of 1932 those share will be trading at ~$3.00/share.

[@AllenJones-w3p]

The now defunct Radio Corp. of America(later known as the RCA Corporation) was NBC's parent company for many years.

[@dougdouglas2112]

thanks for the tip👌

[@JimWB8SIW]

The increase in value of RCA stock was partially the result of sock manipulation by the infamous Michael Meehan, who, if I recall correctly, was the first person prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Equally corrupt was the President of RCA, David Sarnoff, who made it a practice to steal the intellectual property of various inventors to ensure his dominance in the industry.

[@davidscott3820]

I love history!

[@DavidEsp1]

20:10 In India, the introduction of radio was hoped (presumably by India's government) to reduce the tendency to revolt. Again presumably, because it would be promoting or amplifying (in a social sense) a single centralised consistent point of view, thereby diminishing competing ones. Propaganda: A Nation-Unifier (at various costs). The extreme fragmentation we currently experience, at least in some countries, obviously runs counter such an agenda. Presumably therefore, "Big Brothers" (and Sisters) of various kinds will now seek to reduce and censor, via an alliance of politics and tech, even down to individual feeds. It would be especially ironic if modern day freedom rebels were to assist or at least allow such a (hypothetical) scheme to materialise. If achieved, no-one could know or control what it might eventually become. Fear this, not A.I.

[@uslines]

Wonderful assembly

[@steveknoebber]

The robot suddenly exclaimed " I CAN READ !!!"

[@TomSherwood-z5l]

Lot of these radios around. I have a few and it is fun to listen to them once in awhile. But modern listeners might find the sound quality of most of them execrable. But perfectly understandable.

[@timvandenbrink4461]

I have one in my kitchen, I have to remind myself that it won’t play broadcasts from the 20’s as much as I want it to!

[@JJONNYREPP]

A Pictorial History Of 1920 Radio: The Early Boom 17.11.24 2010pm the opening sequence..... he will either be a very old geezer or recently deceased... or maybe died in the war. these are the things which run through one's mind when you see archive footage...

[@Edward-kk4dl]

❤❤❤ remember. Radio. Stocks. 1929. Crashed 2. Rca. Edison. Ect. Took a dive. ❤❤❤ the //// sr editor edward