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Reginald Fessenden

1866 - 1932

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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in various fields, most notably ones related to radio and sonar. Fessenden is best known for his pioneering work developing radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation (AM) radio. His achievements included the first transmission of speech by radio (1900), and the first two-way radiotelegraphic communication across the Atlantic Ocean (1906). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reginald Fessenden has received more than 607,704 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Reginald Fessenden is the 172nd most popular inventor (down from 146th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Canada (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Reginald Fessenden ranks 172 out of 426. Before him are Siegfried Marcus, Édouard Branly, Elihu Thomson, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Guillaume Amontons, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel. After him are Charles Cros, Matthew Boulton, Friedrich Zander, Joseph Monier, Philo Farnsworth, and Henrich Focke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Reginald Fessenden ranks 48. Before him are Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, Franz von Bayros, Emile Vandervelde, Vasily Kalinnikov, and Voltairine de Cleyre. After him are Ramon Casas, Paul Lincke, Wakatsuki Reijirō, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Jeppe Aakjær, and Lizzie Magie. Among people deceased in 1932, Reginald Fessenden ranks 42. Before him are Alexander Grin, Johannes Schober, Hovannes Adamian, Emil Orlík, Begum Rokeya, and Ovide Decroly. After him are Ramon Casas, Ivar Kreuger, John Philip Sousa, José Félix Uriburu, René-Louis Baire, and Kenneth Grahame.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Reginald Fessenden ranks 114 out of 1,622. Before him are Jean Chrétien (1934), Margot Kidder (1948), Hubert Reeves (1932), Deanna Durbin (1921), Walter Huston (1883), and Myron Scholes (1941). After him are Paul Martin (1938), Rick Moranis (1953), Linda Evangelista (1965), Bruce Greenwood (1956), Graham Greene (1952), and Florence Lawrence (1886).

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Among INVENTORS In Canada

Among inventors born in Canada, Reginald Fessenden ranks 2. Before him are James Naismith (1861). After him are Gerald Bull (1928), Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907), and Yvonne Brill (1924).

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