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  2. Golden Age of Radio - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...

  3. Home appliance - Wikipedia

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    A home appliance, also referred to as a domestic appliance, an electric appliance or a household appliance, [1] is a machine which assists in household functions [2] such as cooking, cleaning and food preservation. The domestic application attached to home appliance is tied to the definition of appliance as "an instrument or device designed for ...

  4. Home computer - Wikipedia

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    In 1985, the Epson corporation, a popular and respected producer of inexpensive dot-matrix printers and business computers (the QX-10 and QX-16), introduced its low-cost Epson Equity [47] PC. Its designers took minor shortcuts, such as few expansion slots and a lack of a socket for an 8087 math chip, but Epson did bundle some utility programs ...

  5. History of radio - Wikipedia

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    Early experiment demonstrating refraction of microwaves by a paraffin lens by John Ambrose Fleming in 1897. After their discovery many scientists and inventors experimented with transmitting and detecting "Hertzian waves" (it would take almost 20 years for the term "radio" to be universally adopted for this type of electromagnetic radiation). [ 8 ]

  6. Cadena COPE - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.cope.es. COPE, an acronym for Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas ("People's Radiowaves of Spain Network") formerly called Radio Popular, is a Spanish language radio station. It is the second most listened to in Spain's generalist radio. Owned by the Spanish Episcopal Conference (Spanish Catholic Bishops' Conference) company ...

  7. Transistor radio - Wikipedia

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    Transistor radio. A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor -based circuitry. Previous portable radios used vacuum tubes, which were bulky, fragile, had a limited lifetime, consumed excessive power and required large heavy batteries. Following the invention of the transistor in 1947—which revolutionized the ...

  8. Microwave - Wikipedia

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    weather radar, surface ship radar, some communications satellites, microwave ovens, microwave devices/communications, radio astronomy, mobile phones, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, ZigBee, GPS, amateur radio C band: 4 to 8 GHz: 3.75 cm to 7.5 cm long-distance radio telecommunications, wireless LAN, amateur radio X band: 8 to 12 GHz: 25 mm to 37.5 mm

  9. Electrodomésticos - Wikipedia

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    Electrodomesticos in 2015. Electrodomésticos (Spanish for Appliances) is a Chilean band of experimental rock and electronic rock, formed in Santiago de Chile in 1984. The band was one of the most critically acclaimed avant-garde acts of the underground scene of Pinochet ´s Chile during the 1980s. They were active from 1984 to 1991, when they ...