on christmas eve 1906, radio broadcast was made for the first time in the world.
who made the first radio broadcast in the world?
on christmas eve 1906
on christmas eve 1906, reginald fessenden is said to have broadcast the first radio program, consisting of some violin playing and passages from the bible. while fessenden's role as an inventor and early radio experimenter is not in dispute, several contemporary radio researchers have questioned whether the christmas eve broadcast took place, or whether the date was in fact several weeks earlier. the first apparent published reference to the event was made in 1928 by h.p. davis, vice president of westinghouse, in a lecture given at harvard university. in 1932 fessenden cited the christmas eve 1906 broadcast event in a letter he wrote to vice president s.m. kinter of westinghouse. fessenden's wife helen recounts the broadcast in her book "fessenden: builder of tomorrows" (1940), eight years after fessenden's death. the issue of whether the 1906 fessenden broadcast actually happened is discussed in donna halper's article "in search of the truth about fessenden" and also in james o'neal's essays. an annotated argument supporting fessenden as the world's first radio broadcaster was offered in 2006 by dr. john s. belrose, radioscientist emeritus at the communications research centre canada, in his essay "fessenden's 1906 christmas eve broadcast."
golden age of radio
the marconi company's new street works on the b1008 in chelmsford was the world's first radio factory in 1912; on 15 june 1920, britain's first radio broadcast was made by dame nellie melba. the first radio broadcast in uk was in december 1919 from marconi in chelmsford, broadcasting news for the first time in december 1920. the world's first scheduled broadcast from the 2mt ("two emma toc") marconi transmitter at writtle was from 14 february 1922, only on tuesday evenings. the world's first real-time computer (type 152) with memory store (williams tubes) was built in 1947 by the elliott brothers research laboratories at borehamwood; the site became marconi avionics in 1978 and gec avionics in 1984, and also had gec computers.
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