In recognition of the 10th anniversary of World Radio Day, we invite you to learn about NIHF Inductee Reginald Fessenden, who is known not only for discovering amplitude modulation (AM) radio, but ...

It’s been more than two years since my article about Reginald A. Fessenden and what may have been the world’s first broadcast appeared in Radio World.. Readers will recall that in the last months of ...

However, Fessenden was the first man to make a two-way transatlantic radio contact (Marconi’s was one way) and he was a pioneer in using voice over the radio. He did even more than that.

Dec. 12, 1901 marks the date of the first radio transmission across the Atlantic by Reginald Fessenden. Scott Mason, our Tar Heel Traveler, tells us more about Fessenden and his accomplishment.

Suddenly, for the first time in history, a voice comes over the air: Reginald Fessenden introducing a recording of Handel's Largo, a Bible reading and a little fiddle music. It must have been hard ...

Reginald Fessenden actually first made radio history in 1900 when he sent his voice from one weather service bureau to another. This is a recreation of that first transmission.

As the story goes, voices on radio were first heard 100 years ago this Christmas Eve. Reginald Fessenden figured out that by combining two frequencies together, it would be possible to speak over ...

The voice was that of Reginald Fessenden (1866-1932), an inventor and engineer who had been working on producing voice radio since Marconi's first wireless broadcast across the Atlantic.

Matt Largey profiles one of radio's unsung pioneers, marking the centennial of the first voice broadcast. On Dec. 24, 1906, Morse code gave way to the human voice and a Handel piece heard by ...

Reginald Fessenden (Image credit: Library of Congress). Perhaps the most visionary of the early radio pioneers was Reginald Fessenden, who offered typewritten handouts describing broadcasting’s ...

Reginald Fessenden, a chemist and electrical engineer, sent the first spoken radio broadcast in history from the 420-foot tower of the National Electric Signaling Co. at Brant Rock in Marshfield ...