Editing Golden Age of Radio (section)

=== Consumer adoption ===
Through the decade of the 1920s, the purchase of radios by United States homes continued, and accelerated. The [[RCA|Radio Corporation of America (RCA)]] released figures in 1925 stating that 19% of United States homes owned a radio.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|date=1995-08-14|title=Radio: A Consumer Product and a Producer of Consumption (Interactive Historical Introduction, Coolidge-Consumerism Collection)|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/amrlhtml/inmenu.html|publisher=American Memory Help Desk}}</ref> The [[Triode electron tube|triode]] and [[regenerative circuit]] made amplified, vacuum tube radios widely available to consumers by the second half of the 1920s. The advantage was obvious: several people at once in a home could now easily listen to their radio at the same time. In 1930, 40% of the nation's households owned a radio,<ref>{{cite web|date=1933|title=Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 (Abstract of the Fifteenth Census of the United States)|url=https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1930radiosets.pdf|publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref> a figure that was much higher in suburban and large metropolitan areas.<ref name=":0" /> The [[superheterodyne receiver]] and other inventions refined radios even further in the next decade; even as the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] ravaged the country in the 1930s, radio would stay at the center of American life. 83% of American homes would own a radio by 1940.<ref>{{cite web|date=1943|title=Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 (Housing, Volume II, General Chraracteristics)|url=https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1940radiosets.pdf|publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref>