Consumer Goods,

Airplanes, and Radios

Oh My17-2

Consumer Goods

• Rising disposable income• New goods

• Electric razors, facial tissues, frozen foods, home hair color

• Indoor plumbing• Increase in hygiene personal and cleaning

supplies

• Labor saving appliances• Electric irons, vaccuum, washing machine, fridge

• Fashion/youth-preservation• Mouthwash, deodorant, makeup, perfume

Birth of the Airline Industry

• Samuel Langley• Wanted to build a plane that could carry people

• Wilbur and Orville Wright• 9 days after Langley’s attempt crashed and

failed (Dec 17, 1903) Wright brothers have the first successful crewed, powered flight

• Glenn Curtiss• Invented ailerons (surfaces attached to wings

tilted to steer)• Company grew during WWI

Birth of the Airline Industry

• Federal gov’t• Airmail• Kelly Act authorized postal officials to

contract w/ private airplanes• Federal aid for building airports

• Charles Lindbergh• First transatlantic solo flight in 1927

• By 1928 48 airlines in 355 Am cities

Radio Industry

• 1913 Edwin Armstrong invented a special circuit that made it practical to transmit sound via long-range radio

• Harding election victory was one of the first public broadcasts

• National Broadcasting Co (NBC( (1926)• Daily programs

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1928)

Radio Industry

• Advertisements

• Musicians

• Actors

• Comedians• Vaudeville• Movies• Nightclubs

• Presidential election campaign in 1928• Over $1 million in ad time purchased by candidates