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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden dies in Bermuda, aged 65. In 1906 he sent the sound of a human voice by wireless telephony from a station at Brant Rock, eleven miles from Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, for hundreds of miles. The broadcast is said to have been heard by ships at sea. Fessenden is credited with originating the continuous-wave principle of wireless transmission and the heterodyne system of reception.
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