FESSENDEN, Reginald Aubrey (1866-1932)

New Fessenden website

A new website has been launched to celebrate the contribution of pioneering Canadian scientist Reginald Fessenden to radio technology.

Although Guglielmo Marconi is much better known, Fessenden could justifiably claim to have played a bigger part in the development of radio than his Italian rival.

The Canadian was responsible not only for the world’s first audio radio broadcast but also the first two-way voice transmission by radio, between Massachusetts in the US and Machrihanish in Scotland.

Despite his enormous contribution to radio, he is nowadays largely forgotten, most of the credit for radio’s early development going to Marconi.The new website aims to redress this imbalance. It features more than 100 pages about Fessenden’s radio accomplishments.

You can find the website at groups.msn.com/fessenden

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB