Wednesday, December 6, 2017
The significance of the Radio during the 1920's
During the 1920's the radio had become a huge part of american life. By the end of the the 20's 60% of american households had purchased and use a radio in their home. This started a new era of entertainment and advertising. Many forms of entertainment during the 20's required you to pay and or travel to the location where the entertainment would be held. If you wanted to listen to music you would have to travel to a place that happened to have live performers and if you wanted to watch the baseball game you would have to buy tickets. With the radio you could listen to music or the game from your home. It also sparked a new wave of advertising, companies could advertise their product in a new way, they could write jingles or slogans and make their product memorable. The news was also a thing changed by radio, news could be spreader faster and to a wider range of people. People would learn about important events much quicker and politicians could make speeches via radio to reach people at their homes and people that would not want to attend a live speech. in what other ways was radio significant during the 20's?
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I think the information you shared relating to the significance of Radios during the 1920's is very good. In addition, I wanted to introduce some of the most significant radio types in the 1920s. The most popular radio back in the day was crystal radios. They were among the first to be used and manufactured. These radios used a piece of lead galena and cat whisker to find the radio signal. This radio was the introduction that allowed many people in the 1920s to join the radio craze. All necessary supplies could be purchased with just six dollars. However, because of the weak signals from this radio, many worked on improving the radio all together, such as Edwin Armstrong, who worked to implement vaccum tubes into radios.
ReplyDeleteComparing the uses of radios from the 1900's to current days, there are actually not that many differences between the two. We still use the radio to listen for news and product advertisement, but there are more entertainment factors, such as pop music and culture, podcasts, and etc. Radios back then weren't very developed, therefore was only able to do little but still played a major role during the time of Depression and so forth. Radios nowadays are literally found with a push of a button in the car, accessible on technologies, and etc. Even though there are many differences and similarities between the uses of the radio, it has never stopped being an important part in our daily entertainment.
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