Radio - Making Waves in America

Radio: Making Waves in America Radio-wave technology is one of the most important technologies used by man. It has forever changed the United States and the world, and will continue to do so in the future. Radio has been a communications medium, a recreational device, and many other things to us. When British physicist James Clerk Maxwell published his theory of electromagnetic waves in 1873, he probably never could have envisioned the sorts of things that …

…causing atrophy of the imagination. Radio has shown us, as many inventions do, what great moderation and responsibility we must use with any new discovery. Bibliography: ¥Fenton, Brian C. ÒRadioÓ ComptonÕs Interactive Encyclopedia CD ©1994 ComptonÕs NewMedia ¥ÒRadioÓ Infopedia 2 CD 1994 Funk and WagnallÕs Encyclopedia Cambridge MA: SoftKey Multimedia Inc. 1992-1996 ¥White, Thomas E. ÒUnited States Early Radio History: Articles and ExtractsÓ United States Early Radio History www.ipass.net~whitetho/index.html (29 Nov. 1998)