Terry O'Reilly
speaker
4,296 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Terry O'Reilly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 5.
Appearances
Follow me on social at Terry O'Influence.
This podcast is powered by ACAST.
And if you'd like to read next week's fun fact, just go to apostrophepodcasts.ca and follow the prompts to record it.
See you next time.
The New York World's Fair opened on April 30, 1939.
The theme was The World of Tomorrow.
The exhibition covered nearly two square miles and had several zones, which included transportation, food, government, amusement, and communications.
It was in the communications zone that a brand new piece of technology was being unveiled.
It would change the world for all time.
It was called television.
On April 20th, David Sarnoff, chairman of NBC, gave a speech to a small crowd at the World's Fair ten days before the official grand opening.
He was standing in front of the 9,000 square foot RCA pavilion, which was shaped like a giant radio tube.
Note that Sarnoff pronounces television as television, accent on the vision, because that was the remarkable breakthrough.
Astonishingly, live pictures could be transmitted to television sets in the comfort of your own living room.
It was radio with vision.
Then, on April 30th, television was unveiled.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech opening the World's Fair.
It would be televised, making Roosevelt the first president to ever appear on television, which was watched by approximately 200 homes who were brave enough to purchase this leading-edge technology.
It's hard to imagine how wondrous and miraculous television must have felt in 1939.
As a matter of fact, most people who visited the World's Fair were skeptical of it.
Showing 2261–2280 of 4,296 · page 114 of 215
← Previous
Next →