[hoagy62]

And now, you know.

[hoagy62]

You asked for a ping when I told the story. Here it is.

[Liz]

Fessenden is a very elite New England rich boy’s school-—some of the Kennedy boys went there.

[PDGearhead]

“...talk to each other (and to the shore) by way of the relatively-new invention of Gugliermo Marconi”

Actually, Nikola Tesla was the inventor of wireless radio.

[MV=PY]

Thanks! Great post.

[real saxophonist]

Thanks for this. I had a Jazz show for three years on WVGS in college. I tried to play the whole spectrum, from the '20s to present day, to educate as well as entertain. I did tend to gravitate toward the hard bop, high-energy stuff.

When I left, the guy who took over was 'All Duke Ellington, All The Time.' That didn't last very long.

[Capt. Tom]

from newsm.org -
The BO station in Brant Rock, MA was established in 1905. A 400 Ft. high tubular antenna with an insulated base was setup and held in place with guy wires that used the same technology that Roebling developed for the Brooklyn Bridge. From Brant Rock on Christmas Eve in 1906 Fessenden became the first person to broadcast musical and vocal programs over the air. The broadcast was heard by US Navy and United Fruit Company wireless operators in ships along the east coast since the receivers were equipped with appropriate rectifiers. The Christmas program was picked up as far south as Norfolk, VA.

[GunsareOK]

Another unsung great American (as Hannity would say) and also a conservative is Edwin Howard Armstrong. When Rush talks about the disgronifier, the disgronificator, and the superheterodyne receiver, be aware that the first two are fictional but the superheterodyne is not. It enabled home users to operate their radios with a simple tuning control to select the stations in addition to a volume and possibly a tone control while still achieving greater sensitivity and selectivity than with earlier designs. He went on to invent FM broadcasting when other engineers insisted it would be unworkable. To my mind, this invention, particularly during its time in the early 1930s, is astounding. FM, with its higher fidelity and much greater resistance to static, made it the natural choice for music broadcasting while today, talk predominates on AM.

I have read but cannot conclusively verify that FDR directed the FCC to cancel Armstrong’s early FM broadcast licenses after Armstrong criticized the New Deal in on-air editorials. Armstrong nonetheless made all of his FM patents available to the government for one dollar in pursuit of World War II communications research and development. Armstrong served directly in World War I being promoted to Major.

[Windflier]

I was once a radio DJ myself, but this is the first I’ve ever seen of this history.

Thanks for posting it!

[mrsmith]

That is cool.
Hail the innate altruism of Christian inventors!