The radio significantly influenced American people. It enabled one person to speak into the end of a microphone and communicate with the entire country. It allowed a quick spread of information on current events around the country. The radio excited, enlightened, and angered many American listeners. Many Americans listened at home, or work, it brought out an important part of each person, it opened eyes and united all the people that would listen. The radio gave new ways for Americans to communicate about politics, war, economy, government, dance, singing, entertainment and also united the American People.
Long before radio Samuel Morse came up with a way to send messages by Morse code a series of dots and dashes that sent messages, since people could do this over long distances it improved communication. Then there was a large halt in the communication because messages had to be sent using miles and miles of wire causing a huge problem for many people. So many people came out to try and come up with a way to make communication wireless. And finally it happened in 1896 an Italian by the name of Guglielmo Marconi sent the first wireless transmission. This event flipped a light switch that would make all inventors move rapidly ahead, making people more excited and putting many on the edge. Many inventors were called crackpots, “who employed their gifts of organization and administration until, step by uncertain step, the edifice of the American way of broadcasting reached its present height.” (Mitchell 22). These men built off one another's ideas and fought often about whose ideas were correct. They led America and the world to the radio, which soon would be broadcasting everywhere uniting every American.
Many people became excited as the radio became an established masterpiece. Since its invention, many young entrepreneurs started their own businesses bringing out many different aspects of entertainment, they would find a radio frequency and...