{"id":27558,"date":"2017-08-14T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27558"},"modified":"2017-08-14T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T10:57:11","slug":"radio-one-of-historys-most-important-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/radio-one-of-historys-most-important-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio: “One of history’s most important inventions”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: CNN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

There are few more important inventions in the history of the world than the radio.<\/p>\n

While in recent years it may have become less popular than television or the internet, it could be argued that the radio was the first electronic gadget to play a prominent part in people’s lives.<\/p>\n

Radio is where the world first heard Britain declare war on Germany, where Orson Welles accidentally fooled the public into believing a real alien invasion was under way in his “War Of The Worlds” serial and where young people first heard Billy Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock,” spreading popular music around the world.<\/p>\n

But it is not just an aural medium. Like all important pieces of technology, design has had an essential part to play in its evolution.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading the full article on CNN’s website…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: CNN) There are few more important inventions in the history of the world than the radio. While in recent years it may have become less popular than television or the internet, it could be argued that the radio was the first electronic gadget to play a prominent part in people’s lives. Radio is where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3,288],"tags":[441,18,4091],"class_list":["post-27558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-cnn","tag-radio","tag-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7au","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5104,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/aldous-huxley-thought-radio-left-something-to-be-desired\/","url_meta":{"origin":27558,"position":0},"title":"Aldous Huxley, radio in The Age of Noise","author":"Thomas","date":"December 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"According to English satirist & humanist, Aldous Huxley, we live in the \"Age of Noise.\" When he wrote this, in 1945, he implicated radio: \"The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. 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The eccentric gentleman (Trevor, I mean this as a compliment) cites the lack of government protection for inventors' rights in Britain; unlike in the US\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Trevor Baylis with an original BayGen clockwork radio (Photo source: The Telegraph)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BayGen-300x293.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":63159,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-cnn-radio-argentina-june-10-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":27558,"position":2},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of CNN Radio Argentina (June 10, 2025)","author":"Thomas","date":"June 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares the following\u00a0illustrated radio listening report of a recent CNN Radio broadcast. 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