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Guglielmo Marconi developed the first apparatus for long distance radio communication, in the 1920s. Italy is the origin point for the radio. In  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is where the first radio was sold.

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Throughout the years after the first radio in 1920s the technology of radios became more and more successful. More family's started to own a radio because it became smaller and CHEAPER.

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The first radios were sold in the United States for home use in 1920,  A decent radio could cost any where from $35, considering the minimum wage in the 1920s was 0.33 cents you had to be pretty wealthy to have one.

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People soon found out how to send Morse code which was dots and dashes across a long distance, this is a dispatcher sending Morse code from a radio.

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When people first heard the first song on the radio they were shocked, people used the radio to broadcast all kinds of news, messages.

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People would sit around and listen to music, tv shows, talk shows and news on the radio. It was a new thing and it was very interesting.