BBC World Service Discovery - Fessenden: King of the Radio Waves

BBC World Service Discovery - Fessenden: King of the Radio Waves: "� Reginald Fessenden
BBC World Service Discovery -
Fessenden: King of the Radio Waves
The world's first radio broadcast took place a hundred years ago on Christmas
Eve 1906.
The broadcast, a programme of live music, readings and phonograph recordings,
was transmitted to ships in the Atlantic Ocean by Reginald
Fessenden %u2013 a prolific inventor largely forgotten
by history."

This was a significant feat. Radio was first used by Tesla, but he got sucked into fighting with Edison about electricity which ended up wasting a lot of time, energy and money that could have been far better spend on invention and development. Marconi was already sending signals for quite some time, but he was using Morse's code to send information. This, however, was the start of broadcast radio as we are familiar with it today.