Radio celebrated 100 years in Canada yesterday. The first broadcast was between Ottawa and Montreal - a concert.
The first radio broadcast was on Christmas Eve 1906 from Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Massachusetts. That was led by Canadian Reginald Fessenden who is considered to have invented radio broadcasting. I found his biography HERE.
Those were very turbulent times for inventors. While he had patents for voice transmission and wireless telegraphy, he didn't receive the money for them or maintained rights when the company he worked for was sold to Marconi. The biography says he went own to other things to invent. One of his greatest inventions during WWI was the fathometer, aiding submarines to detect their depth and how far down the bottom was, so is considered the inventor of sonar.
And radio has continued to develop over the decades. Doom and gloom was predicted because of television. But it didn't happen. Radio remains vital today with many applications and all those frequencies used.
Look at the pear orchards on John Street - I took these yesterday. In the second picture you can see the Meglomanic Winery building on the escarpment.
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