With the advent of the 9V battery-powered transistor radio in the 1950s, the “Emergency Radio” was born. Unlike vacuum tube receivers with heavy batteries or unpowered crystal radios, these handheld ...
Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of global communications, sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901. The ...