Posts tagged ‘radio’
The history of radio
Twenty years after the telephone was invented and music was first sent down a telephone line, Guglielmo Marconi sent radio signals. Marconi (1874-1937) was born in […]
04/02/2010. Category: inventions. Tags: bose, marconi, radio, stubblefield, tesla
Predictions that missed the mark
In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory […]
02/04/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: predictions, radio
If Facebook was a country it would be the largest country in the world
It used to take new technologies on average 15 years to reach market maturity. At their introduction, things like motorcars and telephones […]
11/29/2009. Category: technology. Tags: cell phones, facebook, radio, social media
More than 2 billion computers and 4 billion cell phones made
Since the dawn of electronics Apple has sold more than 180 million iPods, some 2 billion TV sets and a similar amount […]
04/28/2009. Category: technology. Tags: cell phones, computers, dumped, mobile, radio, tv
Radio predicted to have no future
In 1894 the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened […]
02/19/2009. Category: technology. Tags: inventors, radio
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