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Dec 23

Fessenden: King of the Radio Waves

Christmas Eve, 2006 will mark the 100th anniversary of broadcast radio. That day a Canadian physicist named Reginald Fessenden transmitted a program of music and spoken word (heard by Navy and commercial ships in the Atlantic) using Amplitude Modulation (AM). … Read More

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