REGINALD AUBREY FESSENDEN

ALSO NEW  LINKS TO

Canadian Makes
The First Wireless Radio Transmission

AND

Click Here To See The Schematic Drawings Recreated By Dr John (Jack) Belrose As Well As Listen To A Recreation of Fessenden's First Voice Transmission

Kintyre's Fessenden enthusiasts Russell Carroll,  Brian Thomson,  Duncan McArthur,  James McDonald and Willie Hunter at the Machrihanish site

KINTYRE AND OTHER WEBSITE LINKS

FESSENDEN WEBSITE LINKS

Look At The December 1906 Atlantic Weather Charts
and The Storm That Blew Down The Machrihanish Mast

 Following Fessenden
"The Campbeltown Courier",  Friday,  August 18,  2006,  Page 2

A historic link between Campbeltown and Massachusetts took place last weekend when a radio link was set up as part of the Reginald Fessenden centenary celebrations in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

Duncan McArthur and Brian Thomson

Duncan McArthur and Duncan McMillan of the local (Campbeltown) Fessenden group along with James Cairns, a pupil in Drumlemble Primary School and Nancie Smith from Campbeltown Community Council spoke to the Americans.

On the other side of The Atlantic was Scott Wheeler of the group from the radio station WATD-FM who is responsible for producing a souvenir booklet to honour the first century of broadcasting.

The first voice broadcast across the Atlantic was received at Machrihanish in 1906, where a huge 450ft mast was erected by Reginald Fessenden to match a similar mast in Brant Rock near Marshfield.

Pupils at Drumlemble Primary School visited the site at Machrihanish where the mast had been built, as part of a project on Fessenden and James Caims told Scott Wheeler of the interview conducted by the children when Duncan McArthur played the part of Reginald Fessenden and answered the questions prepared by the pupils.

Part of the souvenir programme by Scott Wheeler and his wife are pictures retrieved from a box found in June 2006 on property owned by the Fessenden family. The photographs were presented to the Fessenden Committee in Marshfield and were found to be priceless.

Described as a 'treasure trove', they chronicled the work of Reginald Fessenden and the crew of engineers who worked with him in Massachusetts on his inventions.

Also included in the programme are photographs of Machrihanish showing the construction of the station at Uisead Point in 1905, a picture of the Fessenden enthusiasts at the remains of the site this year and a picture of Drumlemble pupils on their visit to the site.

Communication between Daniel Webster Elementary  School  in Marshfield and Drumlemble Primary School , just outside Campbeltown, has already begun using The Internet.