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 Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Massachusetts
Ocean Bluff and Brant Rock are villages located in the town of Marshfield in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
In 1906, Reginald Fessenden achieved two-way voice transmission by radio across the Atlantic, between his station in Brant Rock and another in Machrihanish, Scotland.
Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock is located at 42°6'6" North, 70°39'39" West (42.101561, -70.660787)
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Brant Rock MA Coast Guard Station c 1933
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 World's first radio voice broadcast from Mass. coast in 1906
IRELESS transmission of speech over a distance somewhat greater than ten miles was satisfactorily accomplished in the presence of a number of persons invited to witness demonstration of a new system of wireless telephony at the experimental station of the National Electric Signaling Company, Brant Rock, Mass., on Dec. 21st, 1906.
The sites selected were Brant Rock, 30 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and Machrihanish, on the far side of the Mull of Cantyre from Campbelltown, Scotland.
The antennae were two masts, 50 feet high, set up one mile apart at Rock Point, Md.
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 Radio - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions
On Christmas Eve, 1906, using his heterodyne principle, Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio audio broadcast in history from Brant Rock Station, Massachusetts.
The world's first regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment commenced in 1922 from the Marconi Research Centre at Writtle near Chelmsford, England, which was also the location of the world's first "wireless" factory.
Before the advent of television, commercial radio broadcasts included not only news and music, but dramas, comedies, variety shows, and many other forms of entertainment.
www.questionz.net /20th_century/Radio.html   (8720 words)

  
 The Haunted Studio - History of Radio Part 1
On the 24th December Professor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden’s National Electric Signalling Company at Brant Rock, Massachusetts, is credited as the first radio station when Reginald Aubrey spoke by radio to ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1899 Captain Jackson, on board the HMS Defiant (an old wooden battle ship which had been converted into a Royal Navy torpedo school) gave orders to three cruisers in controlled manoeuvres, via radio for the first time.
On the 27th March the first wireless telegraph message was sent across the English Channel (South Foreland, UK to Wimereux, France) by Marconi.
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 Adventures in CyberSound: Fessenden, Reginald A. (Aubrey)
Canadian physicist Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932) makes the first AM radio broadcast, which carries speech and music, from a transmitting station he has built himself at Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
He won Scientific American's Gold Medal in 1929 for the fathometer, which could determine the depth of water under a ship's keel.
July 22, 1932), is known for his early work in wireless communication.
www.acmi.net.au /AIC/FESSENDEN_BIO.html   (821 words)

  
 Unravel the Gavel
Fessenden set up the alternator at Brant Rock in Massachusetts and on Christmas eve, 1906, a Morse code signal was sent out to stand by for a special event.
This alternator, one of several designed by him from 1905 to 1920, was used to send transatlantic radio-telegraph messages from the Rocky Point, Long Island, station of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
Alexanderson is shown here with a General Electric television set of the 1920s.
www.thegavel.net /alexand.html   (821 words)

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