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Inventions and Innovations
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- The first commercial radio broadcast was on November 2, 1920 from KDKA in Pittsburgh. When did you first begin listening to the radio? What types of programs did you listen to?
- What did your first radio look like? Was it a big investment for your family? Was it treated very carefully? Were you fascinated by this "magical box" out of which came music and people's voices?
- How did the advent of the radio change your family's daily activities? Did listening to music or the news, as opposed to singing or reading the newspaper together, become a daily family activity?
- Who were your favorite radio performers of the day? Did you wonder what they looked like? Did you ever actually get the chance to see them?
- What important news did you hear over the radio? Was that how you first heard about the 1929 stock market crash? The beginning of World War II in Europe? The bombing of Pearl Harbor? Did you hear about and believe the 1939 broadcast of the War of the Worlds?
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