Can you hear me, mother? While we might get our (fake) news and entertainment from UA-cam nowadays, in the 1920's that was radio. It's hard to imagine how hugely influential this new mass medium was. This episode shows how this was quickly incorporated in propaganda machineries all over the world. New strategies emerged and those who addapted succeeded. We love to do these Between Two Wars episode as they give us the chance to go in depth in the topics that paved the way for World War Two. This episode is no exception. We can only make these episodes because of our loyal supporters on Timeghost and timeghost.tv. Please do concider supporting us too! Cheers, Joram *PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT:* *RULES OF CONDUCT* STAY CIVIL AND POLITE we will delete any comments with personal insults, or attacks. AVOID PARTISAN POLITICS AS FAR AS YOU CAN we reserve the right to cut off vitriolic debates. HATE SPEECH IN ANY DIRECTION will lead to a ban. RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, OR SLAMMING OF MINORITIES will lead to an immediate ban. PARTISAN REVISIONISM, ESPECIALLY HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR DENIAL will lead to an immediate ban.
Thanks for this great episode. The history of broadcasting is especially important to me, since it is part of my job... And I very much appreciated you guys showing a picture of my workplace in your video ;)
Well... they can type away all they want, Belgrade won't change place retroactively, unless they have one hell of a big earth mover and a time machine - he was however strictly speaking born in the Empire of Austria... so we've already gone out of our way to be extra kind to any sensitivities here.
I am from Croatia. It is well known fact that he is a Serb. He is still one of the most revered people in Croatia considering he was born in what is today Croatia.
Gossip, gossip Gossip, gossip I heard it in the night Words that thoughtless speak Like vultures swooping down below On the devil's radio (George Harrison)
Radio is a sound salvation Radio is cleaning up the nation They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason So you had better do as you are told You better listen to the radio
Invisible airwaves Crackle with life Bright antennae bristle With the energy Emotional feedback On a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price - Almost free…
Well there were probably way more receivers abroad than in Russia. Russia was wartorn and quite underdeveloped in 1920, so reaching the Russians en masse by radio was probably impossible while sympathizers in Europe could more easily be contacted.
In early Soviet times, including the 1920s to 1940s, radio broadcasts were received by loudspeaker in many cases, and for example many first learned of the German invasion in 1941 by listening to loudspeaker announcements relaying radio broadcasts. In the Third Reich, people were encouraged to buy inexpensive radios called Volksempfänger ('People's Receivers'). These were designed to be too weak to receive foreign broadcasts. Listening to these was discouraged before WW2 and illegal during it. One youth who had been hit by his stepfather tried to get possibly mortal revenge by accusing him of listening to foreign broadcasts. The stepfather succeeded in proving in court that his radio was not built to receive foreign radio transmissions.
South American countries are fun too; if you get that far don't mess with Mexico because that'll bring the USA into the war and then it's all over (or the British and French colonies.)
Discovered this channel yesterday with a WWII episode appearing in my feed. Watched for 1 minute, then started at the beginning of 'Between 2 Wars' series. Had to stop for a moment to comment on how much I appreciate this. Clearly, this is the best YT channel of all time. It's value cannot be over estimated. Should be required viewing for every student. Heartfelt thanks to all the contributors who make this possible.
Indie and company, TIME Ghost should be required in all public schools!!!!!! Each episode so freaking good I learn more now than I ever did in schools. Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!
Indy and crew, you are doing a good for humanity by producing such content. It is a pleasure to watch your videos with so many details Keep up the good work Cheers from Brazil
My best friend happens to be Brazilian and I can't help but wonder... Your name doesnt sound "normal" brazilian. Bruno sounds German, Woszniak sounds Polish. Am I swimming totally alone there?
@@TheIfifi Brazil is a diverse nation with people with roots from all over living there. Last time I checked, Brazil was 47.73% white (the majority) so there should be Germans and Poles living there.
16:52 In 1924 Spain also opens its first two Radio broadcasting services: EAJ1 Radio Barcelona, made by the local Catalan authorities and EAJ2 Radio España made by the central Spanish government.
My paternal grandmother had a beautiful Philco set, the last thing Grandpa bought her, a Christmas present in 1939; he died of a heart attack 5 days later. It still worked in the '50s; I loved listening to foreign broadcasts on the short wave band. What are now Old Time Radio programs were still being broadcast through the late '50s; I loved to imagine sitting around the radio with my dad's family listening to Jack Benny, or the Pearl Harbor announcement.
Indy neidell is giving me the best history lessons I've ever had.. Clear and easy to follow, and an honest view on the history of western countries that I never learned in school.
Fun Fact: Bredow started broadcasting in Königs Wusterhausen witch is just a few kilometers away from my hometown. Königs Wusterhausen is located south of Berlin and there is a Museum dedicaed to him :)
In Portugal the radio stations is from de 30s with the station of the State (Emissora Nacional), the Church( Radio Renasçenca) and the comercial stations (Radio Clube)! But the Portugal are living in dictatorship from de 1926
The people who started radio in Germany came from the Bildungsbürgertum (a very germany-specific subset of the educated middle class). They opted to mainly broadcast "serious", i.e. classical music, believing classical music to be of greater value than popular music. So the music choice fits quite well.
You were there with Crosley. In 1925 you could buy the Pup for $9.75. That is around $125.55 in today's money. Some competitors price would be around $1400 today. WLW has quite a broadcasting history. From the mid to late 1930's they broadcast at 500,000 watts. That would make Wolfman Jack envious. I think the top 3 items for middle class kids to want in the late 1920's was a crystal radio set, motor boat and a car although he might start with a motorcycle.
My maternal grandfather was the technical director for Crosley Radio at the time and was hired to help design and install that transmitter out at Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati. Joseph A. Chambers. ua-cam.com/video/CbHjcwIoTiY/v-deo.html WLW's 500,000 watt transmitter in Mason, Ohio.
Sorry someone was angry about being wrong and tried to steal my account. While doing damage control, I deleted my original comment by accident. As summation: Modern people have grown up with mass media, in the past there were multiple example of mass hysteria events, which are fairly uncommon today.
@Jan Gunnar Agree fully. But there is cultural differences how we handle can shift through the modern media. Example in Finland we have ways we can keep journalist countable if they lie, so our news organisations have fairly good record telling the truth. No way a perfect system. There is this example of our neighboring Estonia being used as a testing ground by the Soviet Union how the oppressed Estonian population would react and function when influenced by the more liberal Finnish media.
JA...when we know better than to believe everything we're told w/out question...we're (at least some-maybe most) more gullible, since we're (at least we're supposed) more aware than our ancestors.
I have a question my grand grandfather during ww1 was part of AH navy. I'm from Croatia. And my father said to me that after end of the war he went to China as part of Leage of Nations troops. He was there for 8 years. Can you say something more about that.
Indy , Spart , Astrid, Joram, Bodo and the rest of the team Thank you . My Grand Parents were the Young Adults During this era . Turn of the Century and thru this time and the 2nd war . You keep giving me glimpses of what they saw , Heard and did . They came from strict House holds but this was their Youth time . When I say Grandma was a Flapper it is Funny and strange at the same time . She is long gone but I can remember as a young kid at the table being told that the Children did not speak at Meal time . So Your between the wars series is Enlightning to me . Please rent a Land Tuna and do a Flapper Road Trip ?
"In the United States of America" Dude, I am going to die. That is the funniest accent shift I have ever seen. TBH, I sound like the second guy, funny is funny.
In my younger days I used to go exploring. Some might call it breaking and entering, but I never broke anything and never stole anything. In the attic of a college building somewhere in the Midwest I found an 1898 Marconi wireless transmitter and receiver in mint condition. I wonder if it is still there. A similar setup was aboard the steamship Republic when it collided with the Florida in 1909. Several passengers on each of the ships were killed; however, partially due to wireless, the rest of the passengers and crews were saved. The young wireless operator was hailed as a hero. Several years later, the young radioman was offered the opportunity to serve on a brand new state-of-the-art ocean liner, the Titanic; however, he had fallen in love with an English woman and turned the opportunity down.
Nipper, the dog on the RCA label, is buried in Kingston-Upon Thames, on the outskirts of London. The place is now the car park of a local bank, and there's a plaque about this in the bank. Usless knowledge, the best knowledge!
I wouldn't wish to shed any aspersions on any of the successes Marconi had, but his mother was British and had a lot of powerful acquaintances who allowed for her son to succeed in his "business" (even if he didn't know what kind of area he was going to open - telecommunications!).
Hi Indy. Anything on the Transatlantic RadioTelegraph Center / Transatlantycka Centrala Radiotelegraficzna in Warsaw? There's also a Swedish "sister" station the Grimeton Radio Station - these may be interesting as they had range reaching up to USA.
Aw man, you left out Czechoslovakia, Československý Rozhlas is actually the second oldest public radio broadcaster in Europe (at least according to wiki, but I had this information in my head before I went to check).
My Uncle Roy, later disabled on the Western Front, got in trouble with the US Army Signal Corps in 1912, for jamming their transmissions from Fort Riley, KS, using an unmodulated spark transmitter.
2:40...It didn't start with James Maxwell. It started with Michael Faraday. Maxwell derived the mathematical equations for the earlier experimental results of Faraday.
My grandad is 93 and still calls it the wireless. I didn't think much of it, until my mate pointed out the other day, that I still call my laptop a PC...
Just a heads up on translating 1926 dollars to dollars today - the better inflation metric to use is gold since they were on a gold standard. So an ounce of gold was basically 20 dollars in 1926, and today (3/1/2019) it is around 1300 - so instead of the 900 mill it would be a lot closer to 3.9 billion in today dollars.
This was done using purchase parity adjusted inflation - using the gold standard over-blows the present value due to the rise in gold prices since the gold standard was abandoned having been vastly higher than inflation.
Surprised Italy didn't get a mention in that list of countries establishing radio services. Theirs began broadcasting in 1924 with Mr Marconi himself involved.
You have to make a special for the experimental tv broadcasts that started sometime in the mid 20s. I think that the bbc was the first to start in 1926. Germany started a few years later. The Berlin olympic games were the first to be broadcasted live
it's quite cool that you've mentioned Popov. In Russian history, they call him the main inventor. I think they do mention Marconi as well but no as much as Popov.
Well, when I went to an American school, the invention of television was attributed to a certain Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian who emigrated to the USA. In Britain I was taught it was invented by John Logie Baird, a Scot.
At the bit of the titanic i was expecting the story about the marconi operators on ships beeing told to not cooperate with the radio operators using eqipment from other manufacturers unless in case of emergency. And the main radio operator of the titanic not really cooperating just as he was told, even in his case of emergency and thus decreasing the number of survivors by not aswering to one ship that was closer than those who then came to rescued people. (People still discuss if the radio operator just misjudged the severeness and thoought there was enough time for the british ship to arrive)
Great video as always guys, but I notice that you confused the terms "Scottish, British and English". Scots are Brits, English are Brits, Welsh are Brits, NI are Brits. "British" is an umbrella term which includes all those who come from the United Kingdom.
No it is not. Scots, Welsh and English are Brits, but Northern Irelanders are NOT British. It's even in the name, "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Britain refers the large main island, the Northern Irish are not British in that sense.
@@TheDirtysouthfan people from Northern Ireland are still British Citizens, and it says so on their passports. A lot of people in NI, particularly from Protestant communities, identify strongly as British. Indeed, the Good Friday Agreement allows for people in NI to be either British, Irish, or both.
What is that stone pulpit at 2:11 ? BTW, the link in the description to the "1919 Between Two Wars Episodes on post war technology" is borked. It points to your channel's studio. Here: ua-cam.com/video/oxkk8CuejV4/v-deo.html
Can you hear me, mother?
While we might get our (fake) news and entertainment from UA-cam nowadays, in the 1920's that was radio. It's hard to imagine how hugely influential this new mass medium was. This episode shows how this was quickly incorporated in propaganda machineries all over the world. New strategies emerged and those who addapted succeeded.
We love to do these Between Two Wars episode as they give us the chance to go in depth in the topics that paved the way for World War Two. This episode is no exception. We can only make these episodes because of our loyal supporters on Timeghost and timeghost.tv. Please do concider supporting us too!
Cheers,
Joram
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TimeGhost History good to see regular uploads again!
By the way, are you guys planning on doing part 2 for 1923 and 1924?
what about italian radio?
Comes to show that some things never change..................
Thanks for this great episode. The history of broadcasting is especially important to me, since it is part of my job... And I very much appreciated you guys showing a picture of my workplace in your video ;)
i find much more true news on youtube, then fake. the fake news is coming from the lamestream media.
"Serbian-American Nikola Tesla"
I can hear the Croatian keyboards typing from here
Well... they can type away all they want, Belgrade won't change place retroactively, unless they have one hell of a big earth mover and a time machine - he was however strictly speaking born in the Empire of Austria... so we've already gone out of our way to be extra kind to any sensitivities here.
I am from Croatia.
It is well known fact that he is a Serb.
He is still one of the most revered people in Croatia considering he was born in what is today Croatia.
@@kingusernamelxixthemagnificent some people are less rational than you
Tesla je naš :D
@@TimeGhost do not underestimate balkan nationalists, they even might do it.
How I wish I could have as much enthusiasm in my life as Indy did in 2:20
I would love seeing them on an absinth party
@@CHAR0N_19
ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅
That was one Hell of a "Born in the U.S.A." moment.
Yes, I say it for the sarcastic meaning.
Eat a hotdog, you will start to feel better. Swig it down with Root Beer!
He should do the rest of the show in that voice
"a small duchy in the middle of Europe" touché Indy
It is what it is... 😉
@@TimeGhost That small countries commercial radio will be preferred to the BBC's high culture
Hail Radio Luxembourg!!!!!
Can anyone explain this reference?
@@BleedingUranium www.rtlgroup.com/alwaysclosetotheaudience/RTLGroup_alwaysglosetotheaudience.pdf
All we hear is Radio Ga Ga
Radio Goo Goo, Radio Ga Ga
All we hear is Radio Ga Ga
Radio Blah Blah
Radio, what's new?
Radio, someone still loves you
Gossip, gossip
Gossip, gossip
I heard it in the night
Words that thoughtless speak
Like vultures swooping down below
On the devil's radio
(George Harrison)
Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason
So you had better do as you are told
You better listen to the radio
So that is why they limited what kind of music can be played? :P
C mamó
Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price -
Almost free…
I love that the USSR first broadcasts to the world. THEN their own population like a side note.
"Oh yeah, I forgot we had those guys."
Well there were probably way more receivers abroad than in Russia. Russia was wartorn and quite underdeveloped in 1920, so reaching the Russians en masse by radio was probably impossible while sympathizers in Europe could more easily be contacted.
Not to mention that Russia at the time is mostly an Agrarian Nation
@@Oxtocoatl13 hence the "kolkhoznik" setup, where the collective farms had receivers and loudspeakers installed.
Even in late Soviet times, it struck me how easy it was to pick up Radio Moscow. Very powerful transmitters.
In early Soviet times, including the 1920s to 1940s, radio broadcasts were received by loudspeaker in many cases, and for example many first learned of the German invasion in 1941 by listening to loudspeaker announcements relaying radio broadcasts.
In the Third Reich, people were encouraged to buy inexpensive radios called Volksempfänger ('People's Receivers'). These were designed to be too weak to receive foreign broadcasts. Listening to these was discouraged before WW2 and illegal during it. One youth who had been hit by his stepfather tried to get possibly mortal revenge by accusing him of listening to foreign broadcasts. The stepfather succeeded in proving in court that his radio was not built to receive foreign radio transmissions.
January 1926 - "Ha ha labour unrest what a barrel of laughs!"
>Four months later
"It's was just a prank I swear!"
2:20
one of the greatest moments of indy's youtube career, right behind the magnetic mine opening
New fan...what's the magnetic mine bit?
Charles Fitton
November 17 on the ww2 channel
17:40 "in a small duchy in the middle of Europe"
Oh, the one that can do a world conquest !
Breathes in hearts of iron
How?
it's a popular challenge in Hearts of Iron IV. Start as Luxemburg and try to conquer everyone.
@@neues3691 Bhutan is absolutely powerless.
The Thunder Dragon Empire, now we're talking !
South American countries are fun too; if you get that far don't mess with Mexico because that'll bring the USA into the war and then it's all over (or the British and French colonies.)
I knew Edison was an asshole stealing/lobbying against Tesla inventions. What I didn't know is that he stole Marconi's patents too. What a rolemodel
It's free real estate!
The true American way.
Must have been Steve Jobs role model
This needs more upvotes.
Marconi wasn't that much better.
That map for with the broadcast towers was flawless
Indeed! 😀
Thank Eastory (yet again) :)
Discovered this channel yesterday with a WWII episode appearing in my feed. Watched for 1 minute, then started at the beginning of 'Between 2 Wars' series.
Had to stop for a moment to comment on how much I appreciate this.
Clearly, this is the best YT channel of all time. It's value cannot be over estimated. Should be required viewing for every student.
Heartfelt thanks to all the contributors who make this possible.
Thank you and welcome the channel!
Indie and company, TIME Ghost should be required in all public schools!!!!!!
Each episode so freaking good I learn more now than I ever did in schools. Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!
Thanks Joe! I fully agree 😄
Indy and crew, you are doing a good for humanity by producing such content.
It is a pleasure to watch your videos with so many details
Keep up the good work
Cheers from Brazil
My best friend happens to be Brazilian and I can't help but wonder...
Your name doesnt sound "normal" brazilian. Bruno sounds German, Woszniak sounds Polish.
Am I swimming totally alone there?
@@TheIfifi Brazil is a diverse nation with people with roots from all over living there. Last time I checked, Brazil was 47.73% white (the majority) so there should be Germans and Poles living there.
Thanks Bruno!! We love the appreciation!
Loved that overblown American accent =) =) =) What region / age would you put it at? I'm going with 1920 southern showsman.
I think that pretty much describes it right ;-)
he sounds Texan to me, maybe around Houston? Hard to tell by these Great Lake ears
He’s from Texas, specifically Houston.
He sounds like a used car salesman in Amarillo or El Paso or somewhere out in western Texas.
Sounded like Bill Clinton to me
The place that cannot be named....
😁
Is there a context to this joke? Just curious if I missed something
A small Duchy in the vicinity of France, Belgium and Germany that shall not be mentioned ;-)
Is this starts with letter "S"?
@@angelocortez4471 Nah, the letter between K and M...
this is a hidden gem of a channel. Keep it up boys!
Thank you - we will!
This was a really interesting episode about an aspect of history I’d never thought about before. Bravo 🙌🏻
16:52 In 1924 Spain also opens its first two Radio broadcasting services: EAJ1 Radio Barcelona, made by the local Catalan authorities and EAJ2 Radio España made by the central Spanish government.
My paternal grandmother had a beautiful Philco set, the last thing Grandpa bought her, a Christmas present in 1939; he died of a heart attack 5 days later. It still worked in the '50s; I loved listening to foreign broadcasts on the short wave band. What are now Old Time Radio programs were still being broadcast through the late '50s; I loved to imagine sitting around the radio with my dad's family listening to Jack Benny, or the Pearl Harbor announcement.
Indy neidell is giving me the best history lessons I've ever had.. Clear and easy to follow, and an honest view on the history of western countries that I never learned in school.
Thank you
Beautiful episode as always, thank you.
By 1942, one in six French bartenders had a radio under the floorboards beneath their mother-in-law's bed.
'allo allo, this is Nighthawk calling!
Listen very carefully for I shall say this only once.
And the painting of the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies is hidden inside a sausage, if I recall.
Excellent texan accent, Indy. Glad to see you haven’t forgotten your roots
*sees 22 minutes of my favorite youtube show
Oi blin
That fight transcription sounded really good!
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!
from Chicago no less.
Do you know Dewey?
@@MerlijnDingemanse You mean Malcolm's brother?
@@MerlijnDingemanse .......one of Donald Ducks nephews ?
I swear, if Indy doesn't mention Bing Crosby the next episode, I will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger.
Fun Fact: Bredow started broadcasting in Königs Wusterhausen witch is just a few kilometers away from my hometown. Königs Wusterhausen is located south of Berlin and there is a Museum dedicaed to him :)
I think this was this channel's best video yet. Extremely well done.
Just when I thought the last Between 2 Wars episode couldn’t get more fascinating this comes along!
I loved the ending at 22:04! "... from the station TGA1 in Bavaria broadcasting on 100 gigabytes per second!"
😉
@@TimeGhost where can I get those kinds on internet speed, they are ridiculous. 😁
10:27 I wasn't aware we were in the future now.
XD
I really like these episodes they make me very happy and informed at the same time!
I'm glad to hear that :)
Always an appreciable surprise to see these years covered un-partisanly, cheers TimeGhost History ;)
You're welcome!!
In Portugal the radio stations is from de 30s with the station of the State (Emissora Nacional), the Church( Radio Renasçenca) and the comercial stations (Radio Clube)!
But the Portugal are living in dictatorship from de 1926
I love the music goes from all nice and cheery to completely serious when Germany is mentioned.
The people who started radio in Germany came from the Bildungsbürgertum (a very germany-specific subset of the educated middle class). They opted to mainly broadcast "serious", i.e. classical music, believing classical music to be of greater value than popular music.
So the music choice fits quite well.
This is a damn good channel
Hey Indy that send-off was just beautiful
thanks!
You were there with Crosley. In 1925 you could buy the Pup for $9.75. That is around $125.55 in today's money. Some competitors price would be around $1400 today. WLW has quite a broadcasting history. From the mid to late 1930's they broadcast at 500,000 watts. That would make Wolfman Jack envious. I think the top 3 items for middle class kids to want in the late 1920's was a crystal radio set, motor boat and a car although he might start with a motorcycle.
My maternal grandfather was the technical director for Crosley Radio at the time and was hired to help design and install that transmitter out at Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati. Joseph A. Chambers.
ua-cam.com/video/CbHjcwIoTiY/v-deo.html
WLW's 500,000 watt transmitter in Mason, Ohio.
I enjoyed, this episode, well, I love all your episodes.
Thank you for watching, Daya! Please do stay tuned
This is one of your best videos.
thanks!
Can anyone tell me where to find the photo of the radio and antenna backpack at 14:53? Its a lovely pic!
nl.pinterest.com/pin/418342252871192727/
So your saying people are as gullible now as they were then?????
Yup! 😀
Sorry someone was angry about being wrong and tried to steal my account. While doing damage control, I deleted my original comment by accident. As summation: Modern people have grown up with mass media, in the past there were multiple example of mass hysteria events, which are fairly uncommon today.
@Jan Gunnar Agree fully. But there is cultural differences how we handle can shift through the modern media. Example in Finland we have ways we can keep journalist countable if they lie, so our news organisations have fairly good record telling the truth. No way a perfect system. There is this example of our neighboring Estonia being used as a testing ground by the Soviet Union how the oppressed Estonian population would react and function when influenced by the more liberal Finnish media.
@Jan Gunnar Thx for the tip.
JA...when we know better than to believe everything we're told w/out question...we're (at least some-maybe most) more gullible, since we're (at least we're supposed) more aware than our ancestors.
Well done sir! Very good content!
Thank you
Excellent work guys, really amazing what you're doing.
Great episode. Thanks!
I really enjoy Indys "goofy" side.
The closing tune is so cool :)
Orson Wells would take it to a whole new level in 1938 with the Halloween broadcast of H.G. Wells' War Of The World's!
I have a question my grand grandfather during ww1 was part of AH navy. I'm from Croatia. And my father said to me that after end of the war he went to China as part of Leage of Nations troops. He was there for 8 years. Can you say something more about that.
Me: where’s Marconi??
3:08 Ah, there he is!🇮🇹
I know this is a very late comment, but I hope someone can tell me where to find the photo at 14:53. That early field radio is hilarious!
very similar to the rise of the internet - thanks!
that's basically what the radio was to the human race.
The singer at 8:51 is Al JOLSON (the star of the first commercially successful sound movie, "The Jazz Singer"), not Al JOHNSON.
Great program
Thank you for your support!!
Indy,.. point to point is unicast, not broadcast,.. great show,...:-)
Indy , Spart , Astrid, Joram, Bodo and the rest of the team Thank you . My Grand Parents were the Young Adults During this era . Turn of the Century and thru this time and the 2nd war . You keep giving me glimpses of what they saw , Heard and did . They came from strict House holds but this was their Youth time . When I say Grandma was a Flapper it is Funny and strange at the same time . She is long gone but I can remember as a young kid at the table being told that the Children did not speak at Meal time . So Your between the wars series is Enlightning to me . Please rent a Land Tuna and do a Flapper Road Trip ?
Thank you from the whole team ;-)
I Love the background Music 👍🏼
Thank you! (p.s. I love Banana bread)
Belgium had its first radio station opened in spring 1914. Unfortunately it lasted for a few months
"In the United States of America"
Dude, I am going to die. That is the funniest accent shift I have ever seen. TBH, I sound like the second guy, funny is funny.
This was a very informative episode.
Best host ever!
2:21 Hey, Indy. Your inner Texan is showing!
Man i remember going to Pacers games at the RCA Dome. Cool to hear about their start
Check out the channel Technology Connections and his videos on the CED. It's a GREAT history of RCA.
Great episode.
Thx
I've become a fan for my lifetime.😁
Cool, thanks!
In my younger days I used to go exploring. Some might call it breaking and entering, but I never broke anything and never stole anything. In the attic of a college building somewhere in the Midwest I found an 1898 Marconi wireless transmitter and receiver in mint condition. I wonder if it is still there.
A similar setup was aboard the steamship Republic when it collided with the Florida in 1909. Several passengers on each of the ships were killed; however, partially due to wireless, the rest of the passengers and crews were saved. The young wireless operator was hailed as a hero. Several years later, the young radioman was offered the opportunity to serve on a brand new state-of-the-art ocean liner, the Titanic; however, he had fallen in love with an English woman and turned the opportunity down.
This one is interesting, and shows how the media whose purpose should have been only informing people directs the people.
Nipper, the dog on the RCA label, is buried in Kingston-Upon Thames, on the outskirts of London. The place is now the car park of a local bank, and there's a plaque about this in the bank.
Usless knowledge, the best knowledge!
RIP Nipper the dog
I wouldn't wish to shed any aspersions on any of the successes Marconi had, but his mother was British and had a lot of powerful acquaintances who allowed for her son to succeed in his "business" (even if he didn't know what kind of area he was going to open - telecommunications!).
Hi Indy. Anything on the Transatlantic RadioTelegraph Center / Transatlantycka Centrala Radiotelegraficzna in Warsaw? There's also a Swedish "sister" station the Grimeton Radio Station - these may be interesting as they had range reaching up to USA.
Aw man, you left out Czechoslovakia, Československý Rozhlas is actually the second oldest public radio broadcaster in Europe (at least according to wiki, but I had this information in my head before I went to check).
Good choice of background music!
Thank you!
Goebles philosophy is stronger than ever in today's news.
Hey! I am still waiting on the BBC report on the Spaghetti Harvest in Italy 2019!
Marconi's patent for the radio was awarded to Tesla in recent years recognizing him as the actual creator.
@2:41,
James Clerk Maxwell's middle name is usually pronounced "clark".
My Uncle Roy, later disabled on the Western Front, got in trouble with the US Army Signal Corps in 1912, for jamming their transmissions from Fort Riley, KS, using an unmodulated spark transmitter.
2:40...It didn't start with James Maxwell. It started with Michael Faraday. Maxwell derived the mathematical equations for the earlier experimental results of Faraday.
Hadn't known that Wells' War of the Worlds broadcast was years after the first such panic. I've always liked the old term "wireless" .
My grandad is 93 and still calls it the wireless. I didn't think much of it, until my mate pointed out the other day, that I still call my laptop a PC...
Just a heads up on translating 1926 dollars to dollars today - the better inflation metric to use is gold since they were on a gold standard. So an ounce of gold was basically 20 dollars in 1926, and today (3/1/2019) it is around 1300 - so instead of the 900 mill it would be a lot closer to 3.9 billion in today dollars.
This was done using purchase parity adjusted inflation - using the gold standard over-blows the present value due to the rise in gold prices since the gold standard was abandoned having been vastly higher than inflation.
Surprised Italy didn't get a mention in that list of countries establishing radio services. Theirs began broadcasting in 1924 with Mr Marconi himself involved.
You have to make a special for the experimental tv broadcasts that started sometime in the mid 20s. I think that the bbc was the first to start in 1926. Germany started a few years later. The Berlin olympic games were the first to be broadcasted live
Nipper the Dog,looking/listening to/at the gramophone. Is/was the trademark/symbol of His Masters Voice, i.e. H.M.V. at least here in the UK.
is there a broadcast of the fake news you mentioned at the beginning of your prog ?
You can take Indy out of Texas, but you’ll never get Texas out of Indy
2:18 Indie's Texan roots jumped out for a sec.
Naval history flex: I think the US dreadnought shown at 6:36 is one of the New Mexico class
it's quite cool that you've mentioned Popov. In Russian history, they call him the main inventor. I think they do mention Marconi as well but no as much as Popov.
Well, when I went to an American school, the invention of television was attributed to a certain Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian who emigrated to the USA. In Britain I was taught it was invented by John Logie Baird, a Scot.
At the bit of the titanic i was expecting the story about the marconi operators on ships beeing told to not cooperate with the radio operators using eqipment from other manufacturers unless in case of emergency. And the main radio operator of the titanic not really cooperating just as he was told, even in his case of emergency and thus decreasing the number of survivors by not aswering to one ship that was closer than those who then came to rescued people. (People still discuss if the radio operator just misjudged the severeness and thoought there was enough time for the british ship to arrive)
Nothing is forever, but propaganda always stays the same.
1929, the first radio station was founded in Hong Kong.
In Mexico, the first radio station is called La W, and it still works to this day
02:20 the Universe needs an entire episode with that 'Muricah! English
Great video as always guys, but I notice that you confused the terms "Scottish, British and English".
Scots are Brits, English are Brits, Welsh are Brits, NI are Brits. "British" is an umbrella term which includes all those who come from the United Kingdom.
No it is not. Scots, Welsh and English are Brits, but Northern Irelanders are NOT British. It's even in the name, "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Britain refers the large main island, the Northern Irish are not British in that sense.
@@TheDirtysouthfan people from Northern Ireland are still British Citizens, and it says so on their passports. A lot of people in NI, particularly from Protestant communities, identify strongly as British. Indeed, the Good Friday Agreement allows for people in NI to be either British, Irish, or both.
What is that object behind you? It looks like a fire place in a ceramic casing.
It's a typical Swedish Kakelugn Stove
@@TimeGhost Thanks! I googled more information on it. Very Interesting indeed.
Elias
What is that stone pulpit at 2:11 ?
BTW, the link in the description to the "1919 Between Two Wars Episodes on post war technology" is borked. It points to your channel's studio.
Here: ua-cam.com/video/oxkk8CuejV4/v-deo.html
17:33 The Duchy… is that Luxembourg?
What about the use of electromagnetiv waves (radio) to detect the enemy?
It will be covered?
Sure will!