JRL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: United Fruit Company, Reginald Fessenden, David Sarnoff
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Also came up with the ideas of royalties for artists. Held many radio patents to communicate with ships carrying fruit. Storing sound: 1877: edison invents phonograph, records sound on foil chambers, 1888: emile berliner develops gramophone, plays music on mass produced discs. Signals at a distance: 1844: samuel morse"s telegraph allowed messages to be sent over wires, 1890s: guglielmo marconi develops wireless telegraph, 1905: reginald fessenden makes christmas eve broadcast with voices and music. Radio music box memo: written in 1915 by american marconi engineer david sarnoff, suggested new uses for radio including news, music and sports, ignored due to americas involvement in ww1. Rca monopoly: radio corporation of america created to bring together patents, develop radio as medium, composed of general electric, at&t, westinghouse, & united fruit company, united fruit company, 1920: kdka in pittsburgh launched as first commercial radio station.
