Milestone in Radio History
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Milestone in Radio History Here, on Cobb Island, in December, 1900, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, assisted by Frank W. Very, while experimenting in wireless telephony, for the first time sent and received intelligible speech by electromagnetic waves between two masts 50 feet high and one mile apart. Maryland Historical Society
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