The “improve-as-you-go” radio cultivation between the manufacturers and the consumers in the 1920s would become the major influence in America for shaping the radio industry. During the 1920s the invention of the radio cultivated a new American lifestyle. The radio would become the new median for information across the world, and the United State Government would want a heavy hand in the booming industry. The United States government, following World War I and on the brink of World War II, jumped at the opportunity of being able to communicate over the air waves.
Beginning in 1911, the United States Government hired three inspectors to make sure vessels acquired radios on their ship. This would also, sadly enough, be the reason for one of the first broadcasts ever from the ship of the Titanic, proclaiming that the “unsinkable ship” had in fact, sunk. The use of the radio on vessels would increase safety because ships could give their coordinates and broadcast distress signals. All of these factors would contribute to the changes endorsed with the creation of the radio, the way we commercialize and the way we protect ourselves.
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