In 1895, Gugliemo Marconi invented the wireless telegraph, which later became known as the radio( ). Radio began to gain traction in the United States of America in the early 1900’s with hobbyists who built their own homemade radios. At this point, there were no radio stations like we have today, so radio owners used their radios to talk to each other. The real beginning of radio as we now know it all started with a man by the name of Frank Conrad in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. The year was 1919 and Mr. Conrad was getting tired of simply chatting with other radio owners, to break up the monotony of one on one conversations, Conrad decided to play the song “Old Black Joe” by Stephan Foster on his phonograph. Instead of sending his