Written on verso: "Prof. Phil Hoerald [sic] gather at radio-Radio H.O.W.; Baptist Church San Jose." Professor Charles D. Herrold founded the World's first radio broadcasting station in 1909. This station came into existence in the laboratory of Herrold's College of Engineering & Wireless, located in San Jose's Garden City Bank Building on the southwest corner of First and San Fernando Streets. Charles Herrold, a pioneer in radio, was the first person to transmit radio programs of music and news to a listening audience. Beginning in 1909, three years before Congress' Radio Act of 1912, Herrold broadcast from his College of Engineering and Wireless location in the Garden City Bank Building at First and San Fernando streets. His wife, Sybil, was the first woman disc jockey in the country. Together, they initiated commercial radio advertising. A tireless experimenter, Charles Herrold developed more than 50 radio-related inventions. http://www.sjdowntown.co/Downtown_History_Walk.html Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
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