Try and remember the last time you were in a store. There’s always a string of the weeks “top 40” songs, early 2000s boy band ballads, and 1980s one-hit wonders continuously playing over the speakers to amuse you while you shop. It’s difficult to pinpoint any time where you were not serenaded by the radio while you were out running errands. All of this is thanks to the invention of broadcast radio. Broadcast radio was by far one of the most important and revolutionary inventions, paving the way for countless other endeavors.
It all started with a man named Heinrich Hertz. Hertz was a German physicist who, in the late 1880s, was credited with proving the existence of radio waves on the electromagnetic spectrum. This is where we get the name
It all started with a man named Heinrich Hertz. Hertz was a German physicist who, in the late 1880s, was credited with proving the existence of radio waves on the electromagnetic spectrum. This is where we get the name