RADIO TRIVIA

In 1896, Guglielmo Marconi was awarded a patent for radio with British Patent 12039, Improvements in Transmitting Electrical Impulses and Signals and in Apparatus There-for. This was the initial patent for the radio, though it used various earlier techniques of various other experimenters (primarily Tesla) and resembled the instrument demonstrated by others (including Popov). During this time spark-gap wireless telegraphy was widely researched.

In 1896, Bose went to London on a lecture tour and met Marconi, who was conducting wireless experiments for the British post office. In 1897, Marconi established the radio station at Niton, Isle of Wight, England. In 1897, Tesla applied for two key radio patents in the USA. Those two patents were issued in early 1900. In 1898, Marconi opened a radio factory in Hall Street, Chelmsford, England, employing around 50 people.


Multiple radio tuner of the Marconi/Franklin type, 1907.
 This would have been connected between an antenna and a detector
to choose the desired radio frequency. Seen in the
Marconi collection of the da Vinci Museum, Milano, Italy. 

1010 WINS (AM) is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2005 as a news/talk station. 1010 WINS began as WGBS in 1924, named after its owner: Gimbels department store.

In 1932, William Randoph Hearst purchased it and by 1943 was known as WINS (named after Hearst's International News Service). Crosley Broadcasting operated WINS from 1946 to 1953 following Crosley interests being purchased by Aviation Company in 1945. (The radio and appliance manufacturing arm changed its name to Avco, but the broadcast operations continued to operate under the Crosley name, until they were changed to Avco in the 1960s.)

RADIO SETS IN U.S.A. 1930