FATHER OF RADIO IS 'FED UP' WITH IT, ASKS FOR GRAPHOPHONE
London (JFK+50) On April 4, 1926, The Sunday Star reports that the inventor of the wireless, Guglielmo Marconi*, is 'fed up' with the radio.
Mr. Marconi has been recuperating at a hospital here in London where the nurses "urged" the famous inventor to listen to programs on the radio.
The hospital has introduced wireless headpieces and loud speakers.
Mr. Marconi, however, after listening for "a while," asked for a graphophone**.
JFK+50 NOTE
I grew up in the 1950s & 1960s listening to radio, transistor, table sets & automobile radio. As I have grown older, like Marconi, I am 'fed up' with the radio. The frequency of annoying commercials is the main reason. Why have my ears punished listening to this crap when I can hear pure music without interruption from so many other sources?
*Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was born in Balogna, Italy. GM developed the 1st practical wireless telegraph system & is known as the father of radio.
**graphophone: an improved version of Edison's phonograph, invented in 1886 in Washington, D.C. by Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Sumner Tainter & Chichester Bell.
SOURCE
"Marconi Fed Up On Radio: Calls For Phonograph," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
