[BC] Fessenden was 1900, actually

[Craig Bowman]

WOW, that is great on so many levels. I sometimes think I am the only 
one who knows about Reginald Aubrey Fessenden. He is the father of radio 
as we know it. He had a laboratory on the outer banks of North Carolina 
and I have some framed pictures of it which I purchased from the North 
Carolina State Archives. It seems every industry has its unsung hero and 
Fessenden is ours.


Craig Bowman
Bowman Engineering
Durand, MI 48429
989-277-8835



VJB wrote:

>Although it is nice to mark 100 years since the 1906
>Christmas Eve signals transmitted and noted here,
>Canadien experimenter Reginald Fessenden's first AM
>transmission took place in 1900 from Cobb Island,
>Maryland, at the south end of the Chesapeake bay.
>
>We celebrated 100 years since that event by taking a
>vacuum-tube AM shortwave station out to Thomas Point
>Lighthouse, more than a mile offshore in the
>Chesapeake Bay.
>
>Details at http://amfone.net/K3L/
>
>and
>
>http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/radio/radio_unsung.html
>
>Excerpt below:
>
>Fessenden's new lab was at Cobb Island in the Potomac
>River, where he was experimenting with a receiving
>station at Arlington, Virginia, fifty miles away. He
>and his assistant Thiessen had perfected Morse
>transmissions using a new generator they had bought,
>and in October of his first year Fessenden
>experimentally hooked up a microphone to the improved
>system. On December 23, 1900 Fessenden said into his
>microphone, "One, two, three, four. Is It snowing
>where you are Mr. Thiessen? If so telegraph back and
>let me know." Thiessen replied by telegraph in Morse
>code that it was indeed snowing. In great excitement
>Fessenden wrote at his desk, "This afternoon here at
>Cobb Island, intelligible speech by electromagnetic
>waves has for the first time in World's History been
>transmitted." 
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