Electrophones, Phonograph, Radio broadcasting

Peace Steemians,

When did broadcasting begin?
Marconi in 1920 broadcasted a concert
Or,
The radio station in Cleveland owned by Martin
However, we have to go right back to 1881 for the real start of broadcasting.

The first broadcast was in Paris at a public meeting devoted to the wonderful new discovery of electricity. At the meeting, the people put some sound equipment to their ears and listened to music coming from a theatre in another part of Paris.
In 1890, with the French president support, there was a full service for the people of Paris. It was called the Theatrophone, because it brought the sounds of the theatre into people’s homes by over the telephone wire.
Soon, the same technology spread in Europe. The Telefon Hirmondo operation in 1893 in Hungary was a talking newspaper on the telephone.
In London, A service called the Electrophone started in 1895. It offered broadcasts from theatres and churches in the centre of London.
By the year 1901, the Electrophone company in London started using loud speakers, instead of equipment that you had to hold up to your ear. A loud speaker made it possible for everyone in a room to hear the music. It was almost the same as radio is today.

Two new technologies came along in the 1920s which took away the market for Electrophones.
One was the phonograph, a machine that could record and play back music.
And the other was radio broadcasting.
Radio called ‘wire-less’ in the beginning, was a much less costly way of sending sound to thousands of listeners. The miracle of radio was that you did not need a wire to receive the sound.

Radio became the main form of mass communication in the middle of the 20th century. Then came television. And then the internet. And now, people can use the internet on their telephones, just as people listened to the Electrophone in 1895.