When I first set out to blog about the history of the consumer electronics industry, I was thinking about having to go back maybe 20 or 30 years, to when the first home computers, walkmen, and game consoles began to appear. But a little research later, I realized that the true origins of this industry are found much earlier than that, and not even in the 20th century.
The true founder of consumer electronics, at least according to this website, was Thomas Edison, with his inventions of the typewriter in 1872 and phonograph in 1877. The site goes on to state that the first true "consumer electronic" device was actually the home radio, which caught on with the general public in the 1920's. There were other inventions like the television through the 20th century too.
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