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Musical Inventors #6: Reginald Fessenden

September 13, 2024
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We’ve all been told that Guglielmo Marconi invented radio – and he did. In 1895, he sent the first radio signal over several miles. That was the start of wireless communication. Only six years later, he transmitted the first transatlantic signal, from Newfoundland to England. It was only Morse code for the letter “S”, but it showed the enormous potential of communicating long-distance via radio waves. However, this column is about musical inventors… so we’re going to skip Marconi. His contributions to broadcasting are astounding, but all he ever transmitted was Morse code. He thought about broadcasting voice and music,

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