Geek History Christmas Trivia
Geek History Christmas Trivia
On Christmas Eve 1906, Fessenden broadcast to ships at sea the first music and voice program which included himself playing the violin and reading from the Bible. Transmitting from a station he built on Brant Rock, Massachusetts, Fessenden’s program included two musical selections, a poem, and a short talk. Wireless operators as far away as Virginia and ship wireless operators within a radius of several hundred miles heard this first radio program.
Over the next several years Fessenden would work on developing the technology of radio, while constantly battling with lawyers and investors trying to create the business that would manage his inventions.
But it was Fessenden who broadcast to ships at sea the first music and voice program which included himself playing the violin and reading from the Bible, on Christmas Eve 1906. Sailors who typically were listening for dots and dashes heard “O Holy Night” instead.
The invention of radio seems like it should have been a simple idea, but discussing the concept of radio stirs up some of the most fascination and complex debates over the history of technology. The US government always had their hands in the mix of mucking up the development of radio, and Reginald Fessenden was always involved in a battle to establish his ownership in the invention of radio.
On Christmas Eve 1906 Reginald Fessenden broadcast to ships at sea the first music and voice program #Geek #History http://geekhistory.com/content/reginald-fessenden-canadian-inventor-radio-and-wireless-telephone
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.
He held a contract with the United Fruit Company which had installed wireless systems on the boats to control the harvesting and marketing of bananas in Puerto Rico, and Professor Fessenden decided to give a Christmas present to his customers on the dozen or so ships of the United Fruit Company at sea. He told the wireless operators to listen on Christmas Eve for “something different”. At 9 o'clock the operators heard the familiar “C.Q.” which means “listen all stations” from Brant Rock and then they heard Fessenden's voice speaking.
An Unsung hero: Reginald Fessenden, the Canadian inventor of radio telephony http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/radio/radio_unsung.html
Excerpts from a Letter sent by Reginald A. Fessenden to Mr. S.M. Kintner, Vice President,Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pittsburg , Pa.
http://www.fessenden.ca/controversy.htm
Christmas Lectures for young people the original science guy Michael Faraday #Geek #History http://geekhistory.xyz/content/who-discovered-electricity
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) British physicist and chemist, demonstrated the first simple electric motor, in 1821, in London. The original “science guy,” in 1826 Faraday founded the Friday Evening Discourses and in the same year the Christmas Lectures for young people at the Royal Institution. In 1832 Faraday demonstrated that three types of electricity thought to be different that induced from a magnet, electricity produced by a battery, and static electricity were in fact all the same. Faraday introduced several words into the electricity vocabulary such as ion, electrode, cathode, and anode.
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