Radio Broadcasting Technology

"Your Majesty, we have achieved a tremendous breakthrough in Radio Broadcasting Technology!" Tesla, a Level 3 Academician of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, chief director of Spain's National Electricity Laboratory, and chief engineer of the Royal Electric Company of Spain, said excitedly to Carlo.

There was no need to elaborate on the importance of Radio Broadcasting Technology. Its militarized variant, Wireless Telegraphy, had long since proven its value in the military sphere.

Compared with radio communication, which emphasized point-to-point transmission, Radio Broadcasting Technology mainly spread information from one point to many. Most of the time, it was used in civilian fields.

Speaking of the main purpose of radio broadcasting, it was undoubtedly to convey information outward, and to do so across vast areas and in enormous quantities.

To use a fitting analogy, Wireless Telegraphy was like two or more people writing letters to one another, while radio broadcasting was like a newspaper delivering information.

The difference between the two was obvious. The former emphasized mutual communication, mostly in written form. The latter emphasized receiving information over a broad area and in large quantities, and it could use forms other than text, such as audio.

As Spain's territory continued to expand, one problem became increasingly severe: government orders took ever longer to reach their destinations.

If the government issued an order at the beginning of the year, it was already quite good if the governments of the states and cities could implement it by midyear. Especially in the more remote states, it might already be the end of the year by the time the order was carried out.

With all this back and forth, a great deal of time was wasted, and the people found it difficult to understand the government's intentions in issuing its orders.

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