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Message:: [QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 34490, member: 44"]First public radio broadcast in the U.S. was in 1910. It was a live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House. My mother used to tell how her brother made a radio by wrapping copper wire around something. He had seen a diagram of a homemade one in some magazine in the late teens to early 1920s. It had a single headphone/earphone. They would get into a quiet part of the house, sit on the floor with their heads close together, and listen on that one earphone. Mom said the reception was terrible, but they were thrilled to hear voices, news, through that earphone. They both were only adolescents. A few years later they listened to the progress of Lindberg's flight across the Atlantic, or more accurately the news that no one knew for sure if he was still flying, and were the first in their small town to hear the news that Lindberg had landed in Paris. That uncle was a very interesting man with many wonderful stories. He became a chemist and patent attorney for American Cyamide heading up their patent department. He got his undergraduate, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Clark University in Worcester, MA. He was attending Clark at the same time Dr. Robert Goddard (the rocket scientist, physicist, inventor, engineer) was doing his liquid fluid rocket tests there. He knew Goddard on the student to professor level, and witnessed some of Goddard's rocket launches in Auburn, MA. --- Susan[/QUOTE]