Reginald aubrey fessenden biography

by Mervyn C. Fry

RADIO'S FIRST VOICE, , , 
CANADIAN!
Yes, it WAS a Canadian - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden - who was recognized as the "father" of radio and as the first to actually transmit the sound of the human voice without wires.

Several years prior to his first broadcast by radio, Reginald Fessenden had perfected a new method of sending Morse code more effectively than Guglielmo Marconi. To him goes the credit for successfully transmitting the sound of the human voice between two 50-foot towers on Cobb Island located in the Potomac River, Washington D.C., December 23rd, 1900.

The first radio broadcast ever in the world's history was made by Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906 when he beamed a "Christmas concert" to the astonished crews of the ships of the United Fruit Company out in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Beamed out from the 400-foot towers of the transmitting shack at Brant Rock, Massachusetts on the Atlantic coas