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Reginald Fessenden

25 Years Ago

Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in 1906 employing principles still in use today.

On December 24, 1906, in a wooden shack crammed with equipment in the seaside Massachusetts community of Brant Rock, a 40-year-old inventor named Reginald Fessenden made the world’s first radio broadcast.

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