Real-time transmission of media dates back to the 1920s and George Owen Squier. Among other inventions, Squier patented an approach for sending music long distances without using radio, which was expensive and unreliable at the time. - See more at: http://www.videoedge.net/news/distribution/state-video-streaming-how-did-we-get-here-and-where-are-we-headed/363737#sthash.reo7jNwu.dpuf

Muzak was the brainchild of Major General George Owen Squier, a West Point graduate with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. Gen. Squier may have been the most celebrated inventor of his day, had it not been for his contemporaries Thomas Edison and Wilber and Orville Wright.