Fascinating
facts about Reginald Fessenden inventor of Radio, Wireless Signaling in
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Reginald Fessenden |
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AT A GLANCE:
Reginald
Aubrey Fessenden has often been called the unsung hero of the
telecommunications industry. He developed an entirely new system of
wireless transmission distinct from and based on a different principle
from that of Lodge, Marconi, and all others working in this area...a
principle which later proved to be the correct one. On December 23,
1900, he hooked up a microphone and communicated intelligible speech by
electromagnetic waves a distance of fifty miles. This was the world's
first, and one year before Marconi's highly acclaimed trans-Atlantic
signal. Source:
IEEE Canada
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Reginald
Aubrey Fessenden |
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Criteria: |
First to invent. First
to patent. First practical. Entrepreneur. |
| Birth: |
October 6,
1866 in East Bolton, Quebec, Canada |
| Death: |
July 22,
1932 on a small estate called "Wistowe", in Bermuda |
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Nationality: |
Canadian |
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