[BC] Some historical questions

[nakayle@gmail.com]

 Well this is interesting info, but I was looking for specifics on the
transition from flat-top-Ts to verticals in general broadcasting.  As far as
I know, no broadcast station used a tower radiator before 1928 at the
earliest. But by the early 1930s they were becoming common so it appears a
rapid switchover occurred beginning around 1930 but little seems to have
been written about it.

 - Nat

Here is a link to texts and photos of a very early (possibly the first) use
> of a tower radiator.
>
> http://earlyradiohistory.us/1907mac.htm
>
> The link below has more information about it, from which this paste:
>
> "But an equally historic event, the achievement of a brilliant Canadian
> inventor, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, is generally ignored and largely
> unknown. On December 24, 1906, at 9 P.M. eastern standard time, Reginald
> Fessenden transmitted human voices from Brant Rock near Boston,
> Massachusetts to several ships at sea owned by the United Fruit Company."
>
> "The host of the broadcast was Fessenden. After giving a resume of the
> program Fessenden played a recording of Handel's "Largo" on an Ediphone
> thus establishing two records - the first recording of the first
> broadcast.
> Fessenden then dazzled his listeners with his talent as a violinist
> playing
> appropriately for the Christmas season, "Oh Holy Night" and actually
> singing the last verse as he played. Mrs. Helen Fessenden and Fessenden's
> secretary Miss Bent, had promised to read seasonal passages from the Bible
> including, "Glory to God in the highest -and on earth peace to men of good
> will," but when the time came to perform they stood speechless, paralyzed
> with mike fright. Fessenden took over for them and concluded the broadcast
> by extending Christmas greetings to his listeners - as well as asking them
> to write and report to him on the broadcast wherever they were."
>
> "The mail response confirmed that Fessenden had successfully invented
> radio
> as we know it. Technically, he had invented radio telephony or what radio
> listeners would call "real" radio as opposed to Marconi's Morse code
> broadcasting."
>
> http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/radio/radio_unsung.html
>
> RF
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