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Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936.
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science · Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor (1866–1932) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · engineer · also Reginald Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, Fessenden
Born 6 October 1866 · Died 22 July 1932 · Q334347
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Radio World: Reginald Fessenden: Father of Modern Radio
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2000).
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1980· 1 entry
A Fessenden-Trott Scholarship was established at Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in memory of Reginald Fessenden and his wife
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1961· 1 entry
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists has annually awarded its Reginald Fessenden Award to "a person who has made a specific technical contribution to exploration geophysics"
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1956· 1 entry
Which had also failed to uncover any confirmation of Fessenden's statements
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1932· 2 entries
Died 1932-07-22.
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Claimed that, in late 1906, he had also made the first radio broadcast of entertainment and music, although that claim has not been well documented
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1929· 1 entry
Fessenden was awarded Scientific American's Safety at Sea Gold Medal, in recognition of his invention "of the Fathometer and other safety instruments for safety at sea"
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1928· 2 entries
Fessenden settled his outstanding lawsuits with RCA, receiving a significant cash settlement
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As part of a lecture reviewing "The Early History of Radio in the United States", H
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1925· 2 entries
Stated that "there is only one figure in history which stands in the same rank as him as an inventor, i
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Radio News, saluting Fessenden as "one of the greatest American radio inventors", began a monthly autobiographical series titled "The Inventions of Reginald A
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1922· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1922).
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1921· 2 entries
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1921).
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The Institute of Radio Engineers presented Fessenden with its IRE Medal of Honor
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1920· 1 entry
And the next year its assets, including numerous important Fessenden patents, were sold to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which also inherited the longstanding Fessenden legal proceedings
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1917· 1 entry
NESCO finally emerged from receivership, and was soon renamed the International Radio Telegraph Company
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1912· 1 entry
And Samuel Kintner was appointed general manager of the company
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1907· 1 entry
And who was widely quoted promoting the potential of organized radio broadcasting, was the first person to transmit music and entertainment by radio
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1906· 6 entries
AT&T was said to be planning to acquire NESCO, but financial setbacks caused the telephone company to reconsider, and NESCO was unable to find another buyer
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Fessenden made an extensive demonstration of the new alternator-transmitter at Brant Rock, showing its utility for point-to-point wireless telephony, including interconnecting his stations to the wire telephone network
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The Machrihanish radio tower collapsed in a gale, abruptly ending the transatlantic project before it could begin commercial service
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Or earlier and owned it for the rest of his life
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May have led to suspicion that he was trying to freeze Walker and Given out of a potentially lucrative competing transatlantic service
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Is recognized as an IEEE Milestone, in view of the contrasting opinions among radio historians, Mike Adams summarized the situation as "More than 100 years after its possible occurrence, the Fessenden 'first broadcaster'
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1904· 3 entries
An attempt was made to link the General Electric plants in Schenectady, New York, and Lynn, Massachusetts, a distance of 185 miles (298 km); however, the effort was unsuccessful
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It was decided to compete with the existing ocean cables, by setting up a transatlantic radiotelegraph link
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With a 20,000 frequency spark and compressed nitrogen gap, such good results were obtained that a demonstration was given to a number of electrical engineers, who signed affidavits that they considered the articulation a
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1903· 1 entry
Charles Proteus Steinmetz of GE delivered a 10 kHz version which proved of limited use and could not be directly used as a radio transmitter
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1900· 2 entries
Successfully transmitted speech over a distance of about 1
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Fessenden left Pittsburgh to work for the United States Weather Bureau, with the objective of demonstrating the practicality of using coastal stations to transmit weather information, thereby avoiding the expense of the
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1892· 1 entry
Received an appointment as professor for the newly formed Electrical Engineering department at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; while there, he helped the Westinghouse Corporation install the lighting for
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1890· 2 entries
In the United States at Manhattan in New York City, and later had a son, Reginald Kennelly Fessenden, born May 7, 1893, in Lafayette, Allen, Indiana
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Facing financial problems, Edison was forced to lay off most of the laboratory employees, including Fessenden
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1886· 1 entry
With hopes of gaining employment with the famous inventor, Thomas Edison
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1866· 2 entries
In East Bolton, Canada East, the eldest of four children of the Reverend Elisha Joseph Fessenden and Clementina Trenholme
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Born 1866-10-06.
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