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Explain How The Radio Is An Innovation Of The 1920's

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The radio is an innovation of the 1920s which lead to enhanced communication and a new mass media. People could now get information anywhere there was a radio they didn't have to sit down and read. This all started with Heinrich Hertz who was the first to characterize and demonstrate electromagnetic waves that move outward. Guglielmo Marconi used the natural phenomenon to boost human communication through the radio. This lead to the radio being a social aspect of life as people gathered around to listen. Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the radio for his fireside chats to encourage the american public and give them news. Hitler also used this technology to further his goals in purifying Germany. "In 1941, two-thirds of radio programs carried
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