BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: GUEST,Kernow John
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 03:09 AM

Little John
very remiss of me to not mention the toastings. Probably cos ours was in Cornish wine and I have to admit tasted like gnat's.
KJ

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Burke
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 06:33 PM

According to Britannica Online Marconi was developing radio telegraphy beginning in 1894. Initially over short distances measured in meters, across the English Channel in 1896. His first English patent was June 1896.

"Finally, in 1901, Marconi bridged the Atlantic when the letter s in Morse code travelled from Poldhu, Cornwall, to St. John's, Newfoundland, a distance of nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometres)."

The first known radio program in the United States was broadcast by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden from his experimental station at Brant Rock, Massachusetts, on Christmas Eve, 1906. Two musical selections, the reading of a poem, and a short talk apparently constituted the program, which was heard by ship wireless operators within a radius of several hundred miles.

The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air in the evening of November 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election.

In England a well-received broadcast by the opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, were broadcast for about a year between 1919 and 1920. Opposition from the armed services, fear of interference with essential communications, and a desire to avoid the "commercialization" of radio led, however, to a ban on the Chelmsford broadcasts, which the Post Office claimed the right to impose.

The BBC was organized in 1922.

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: little john cameron
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 06:12 PM

Noo that is strange john as ah wis oan Signal Hill,St Johns,Newfoundland at the Marconi celebrations here.Oney excuse for a booze up eh? ljc

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Ralphie
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 05:56 PM

Oi....Shambles!!
I still have my own hair (greying admittedly!)
It just feels like I've been there 100 years!
Happy Christmas
Regards Ralphie

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Kernow John
Date: 16 Dec 01 - 06:34 PM

I live in a place called Mullion in Cornwall. It was from a field on the edge of the village that the first transatlantic signals were broadcast.
This afternoon I went to the first open day of the new radio shack built to celebrate the 100th aniv. The place is fascinating, hands on radio "it is a not raining here also" stuff and really good visuals of the early signal masts, generators etc. Thank God for the transistor.
KJ

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 Dec 01 - 07:15 PM

Actually many of the people working on and behind BBC radio in the UK must be well over a 100 yers old.

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 Dec 01 - 07:12 PM

You can hear it from the horse's mouth, if you click http://www.marconicalling.com/museum/html/objects/sounds/objects-i=1010.003-t=5-n=0.html

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 07:00 PM

Somewhere in the dim recesses of my tape collection, I have a copy of the first broadcast on KDKA. I suspect that the power was such that you lost contact with the signal before you lost visual contact with the tower. I have no idea what the name was of the first announcer..

Jerry

Talk about an un-enlightening thread... I agree with you,Blackcatter... sorry I am as vague as everyone else.

Maybe it would help if we had an idea why we're even talking about this...

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: NoMattch
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 04:37 PM

What was the name of the guy who first broadcasted his voice over the radio??? I think he did it from his garage.

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 12:34 AM

I'm so glad to see a discussion that is to vague on the real facts...

Not that I know them, mind you.

pax yall

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: GUEST,bflat
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 12:28 AM

I've been listening for more than half my life. The family loved TV and I the radio, so I often sat alone with my radio. Whew, I'm getting old. Theater of the mind.........

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 14 Dec 01 - 12:17 AM

Actually, The Pittsburgh Pirates were around 100 years ago!

Ron Olesko

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 05:21 PM

No, one hundred years ago, they just had a show of hands..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Gareth
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 04:15 PM

Jerry - are they still counting ?

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 04:12 PM

The very first radio broadcast in this country (over here) was from KDKA, the PROUD VOICE OF The PITTSBURGH PIRATES. It wasn't a Pirate's broadcast of course, because they weren't around. It was the announcement of election returns.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Homeless
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 03:52 PM

It's been 100 years since the first trans Atlantic radio transmission, not since the invention.

See Tesla

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Ralphie
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 02:41 PM

And I've only been working in it for 27 years...
God, I feel old!
Ralphie

Subject: RE: BS: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 02:26 PM

I think it's been dead ever since Video killed it....

Or did you not hear that song?

:-)

Subject: Radio is 100 years old! ONLY!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 02:13 PM

Heard on NPR that yesterday, December 12th, was the 100th anniversary of the very first radio message ever sent. Can you believe it's been only 100 years???!? I was shocked at what has happened with radio in that short time, from the equivalent of "ping" to all the music and nonsense on the dials to using the waves to set off bombs... whew! What do you think of that?