Random Canadian factoid no 5 - Radio Broadcasting

Reginald Fessenden - Extracts From National Capitol Commission of Canada;

At the end of the 19th century, people communicated by radio using Morse code - sputtering dots and dashes that trained radio operators could decode into a message. Canadian Reginald Fessenden, changed all that. He is best known for his invention of the modulation of radio waves, the "heterodyne principle" which allowed the reception and transmission on the same aerial without interference.

In 1900 he transmitted the world's first voice message. It took six years for him to refine his invention but on Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in history when ships off the Atlantic coast with Fessenden-designed equipment broadcast the first trans-Atlantic voice transmission.

So whether its 99.9, 102.7, 103.5 or 96.4 you're tuned in to tomorrow, if its any good, you can thank Canada for it.

If its shite, you can always tune in to something else! Or put a CD on. Canadians helped provide us with gramophones too, so there's plenty to be grateful to them for!