Radio HOF

Radio History  Wireless transmissions were a reality in St. Louis as early as 1912 when St. Louis University broadcast weather information in Morse Code, but it wasn’t until 1920 that voice transmission became a reality here. Then two boy-genius engineers built a transmitter in their basements in South St. Louis and broadcast results of the Harding-Cox presidential election. Those men, William E Woods and Lester Benson, built several more transmitters through their Benwood company and Read more…

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