Images like this are quintessentially American, the vision of a family or even an individual huddled around a radio listening to everything. It could be a baseball game, a radio drama, a commercial, or even the president of the United States. The fact is that radio has a serious impact on the lives of Americans and other people around the world. Radio in its current form, like many other similar technologies, has evolved into the profile it now holds. Born from the development of the telegraph, the radio was a kind of wireless telegraph. Its roots date back to the mid-1800s, when Rudolph Hertz demonstrated that variable electricity can generate radio waves, around the end of the 1800s. In addition to radio technology itself, the worldwide patent system was also being put to the test. Two inventors were fighting for the right to say they were the first to patent radio technology. Marconi and Tesla both transmitted radio signals; Tesla eventually won the court battle in 1943. The technology was further expanded with the introduction of the radiotelegraph and spark gap transmitter. These technological improvements were used in ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications. Further developments followed that transformed radio into the image we know and love today. The AM radio coined by Lee Deforest, soon after this development with the issuance of US patents, commercial civilian broadcasting began to be produced. Real broadcasts began to appear all over the world, for example in New York and Paris (at the Eiffel Tower). The last and most significant improvement in my opinion was in the development of FM broadcasts (About.com Inventors n.d.). Radio survived in this form for at least...... half of the paper ......on: a history of the United States. Since 1865, Volume 2. Cengage Learning, 2009.Mierau, Christina B. Accept No Substitutes!: The Story of American Advertising. Twenty-First Century Books, 2000.Modern Mechanix. "CHINA'S MILLIONS TURNING THE DIALS." June 1937. Niiya, Brian. Japanese American History: An A to Z Reference from 1868 to the Present. VNR AG, 1993.Pieslak, Jonathan R. Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. Indiana University Press, 2009. Pieslak, Jonathan R. Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. Indiana University Pres, 2009.Popular Mechanics. “Political Spells via Radio.” December 1924: pages 879 – 881.Stearns, Peter. World Civilizations: The Global Experience. 6th ed. . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Longman, 2011. Stephen Quinn, Vincent F. Filak. Convergent Journalism: An Introduction. 2005: Elsevier, n.d.