Radio-wave technology is one of the most important technologies used by man. It has forever changed the United States and the world, and will continue to do so in the future. Radio has been a communications medium, a recreational device, and many other things to us. When British physicist James Clerk Maxwell published his theory of electromagnetic waves in 1873, he probably never could have envisioned the sorts of things that would come of such a …showed first 75 words of 1522 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1522 total…become extinct. I think that we are far from that point now, however, with the internet and digital television, there are now easier ways of getting music and news in many quick, advertisement free ways. References Fenton, Brian C. Radio. Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia CD 1994 Compton’s New Media Radio Infopedia 2 CD White, Thomas E. United States Early Radio History: Articles and Extracts United States Early Radio History. www.ipass.net~whitetho/index.html (29 Nov. 1998).