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When The Radio Was A Bad Invention
Have you ever wondered what the radio was like before it was like it is today? The radio wasn’t small and it was bulky. It was very hard to understand what the people were saying on the radio. People heard movies, shows, and broadcasts and they had to imagine everything. BDCST and Mary Bellis believe that the radio was a bad invention when it was first invented.

It was a bad invention when it first came out, because you can barely hear it and you had to imagine everything that was said on the radio. BDCST stated that, “The radio was hard to hear from the speakers of the radio.” BDCST stated,”You had to imagine everything, because TVs weren’t made yet so they put movies, shows, and broadcastings on the radio where everyone listened to and imagined everything.” People found it hard to concentrate on what they were saying, because the speakers weren’t the best and they had to have a good imagination to actually like the radio. It was an invention that was very undeveloped when it first came out and I believe that it was a bad invention since it had many things that had to be developed or in a newer version.
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Bellis states that,”It can electrocute people when it was first detected.” This shows that the radio was very dangerous when it was detected for the first time.
Bellis also states that,”It could be barely heard when it was making noises through the speakers.”
This shows that the noises made were very hard to hear. Bellis had many good reasons and I believe that the radio was a bad

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