What was the technology like when the radio was invented?

Answer 1

Most houses and businesses in cities were still lit using gas lamps, but electric lighting was replacing that. Farm houses were generally lit using kerosene lamps and electric lighting was considered impractical or impossible for them.

Most long distance transportation was by train, but stagecoaches and horse drawn freight wagons did most of the transportation out to smaller towns that the railroads did not serve directly.

No highways existed. Outside of cities and towns the roads that did exist were usually unpaved dirt trails that became impassable with mud every time it rained.

Most large cities had some form of public transit, often electric trolleys or horse drawn omnibuses.

The telephone was still limited to just local calls and all calls were connected by an operator.

But things were beginning to change very rapidly!

Answer 2

It was the early 1900’s and the telephone, car, and air plane were just invented.