Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

Fessenden's speeches were read widely, influencing Republicans such as Abraham Lincoln and building support for Lincoln's 1860 Republican presidential nomination.

Fessenden's idea was to run two Alexanderson Alternators, one producing a carrier frequency 3 kHz higher than the other.

Fessenden's detector was not needed to receive the damped wave signals produced by the spark gap transmitters that were common at the time.

While Fessenden's role as an inventor and early radio experimenter is not in dispute, several contemporary radio researchers have questioned whether the Christmas Eve broadcast took place, or whether the date was in fact several weeks earlier.

An annotated argument supporting Fessenden as the world's first radio broadcaster was offered in 2006 by Dr. John S. Belrose, Radioscientist Emeritus at the Communications Research Centre Canada, in his essay " Fessenden's 1906 Christmas Eve broadcast.

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was born October 6, 1866, in East-Bolton, Quebec, Canada, the eldest of the Reverend Joseph Elisha Fessenden and Clementina Trenholme Fessenden's four children.

" ( This lack of a degree may have hurt Fessenden's employment opportunities ; when McGill University established an electrical engineering department, Fessenden was turned down on an application to be the chairman, in favor of an American.

In addition to Howard and Chamberlain, William Fessenden's sons, James Deering Fessenden and Francis Fessenden, were both brigadier generals, and seventeen Bowdoin alumni would receive brevets as brigadier generals, including Ellis Spear ( Class of 1858, who was Chamberlain's second-in-command at Gettysburg ), Charles Hamlin ( Class of 1857, son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin ), and General Howard's brother Charles ( Class of 1859 ).

This problem was solved by the rectification capability of Reginald Fessenden's hot wire barretter and electrolytic detector.

However, after Sen. Fessenden died in office in 1869, Morrill was appointed to replace Fessendon to serve out Fessenden's expired term.

In the summer of 1906 Mr. Alexanderson presented a 50 kHz alternator that was installed in Fessenden's radio station in Brant Rock, Massachusetts.

Fessenden's wife Helen recounts the broadcast in her book Fessenden: Builder of Tomorrows ( 1940 ), eight years after Fessenden's death.

Commemorative plaque near Fessenden's birthplace.

Fessenden's classical education provided him with only a limited amount of scientific and technical training.

At that point, two wealthy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania businessmen, Hay Walker, Jr., and Thomas H. Given, financed the formation of National Electric Signaling Company ( NESCO ) to carry on Fessenden's research.

Fessenden's strong anti-slavery principles caused his election to the U. S. Senate in 1854, with the support of Whigs and Anti-Slavery Democrats.

The Alexanderson alternator followed Fessenden's rotary spark-gap transmitter as the second radio transmitter to be modulated to carry the human voice.

Reginald Fessenden's first attempts to transmit voice employed a spark transmitter operating at approximately 10, 000 sparks / second.

The transmission of speech by radio has a long and varied history going back to Reginald Fessenden's invention and shore-to-ship demonstration of radio telephony, through the Second World War with military use of radio telephony links.

`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

The Commission shall certify to the Secretary of State, upon his request, copies of the formal submissions of claims filed pursuant to subsection ( B ) of Section 4 of this Act for transmission to the foreign government concerned.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

The Government of India agrees to furnish, upon request of the United States of America, information on the progress of the program, particularly with respect to the arrival and condition of commodities and the provisions for the maintenance of usual marketings, and information relating to exports of the same or like commodities.

The Government of India will provide facilities for the conversions of the rupee equivalent of $4 million ( up to a maximum of $1 million per year ) accruing under the subject agreement for agricultural market development purposes into currencies other than United States dollars on request of the Government of the United States of America.

Extensions are not granted as a matter of course, and the reasons for your request must be substantial.

You should make any request for an extension early so that if it is refused, your return may still be on time.

Dance teachers can respond to President Kennedy's request not only through their regular dance work, but also through the kind of basic gymnastic work that makes for strength and flexibility.

Only a few years ago a middle western college circulated a request for a teacher of interior design.

As seen in the B. family, there must be an attempt to help the client develop conscious awareness of the problem, especially in the absence of a formal request for assistance.

For example, child welfare experience abounds with cases in which the parental request for substitute care is precipitated by a crisis event which is meaningfully linked with a fundamental unresolved problem of family relationships.

They also called upon Diane with a request for a look at her passport.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

Mrs. Molvar, who kept reiterating her request that they `` please take a stand '', said, `` We must have faith in somebody -- on the local level, and it wouldn't be possible for everyone to rush to a school to get their children ''.

Downtown and art theater managers and owners, contacted Friday night for comment on the COAHR request, said they had no knowledge of such a letter, and that it was not in the Friday mail.

No request for emergency allotment had yet been received, however.

It takes many forms, this prayer, but in essence it is always a request for guidance, for open minds and gentle hearts, for honesty and sincerity, for the wisdom and the insights that will help Guideposts' readers.

If requested data is contained in the cache ( cache hit ), this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparatively faster.

* TCP buffering: the load balancer can buffer responses from the server and spoon-feed the data out to slow clients, allowing the web server to free a thread for other tasks faster than it would if it had to send the entire request to the client directly.

Snooping protocols tend to be faster, if enough bandwidth is available, since all transactions are a request / response seen by all processors.

In general, two passenger trains run daily: one a slightly slower service with more stops for locals — 15 official stops and more than 50 flag stops where boardings or disembarkations can be made at passenger request — and the other a direct service for tourists that is faster and more expensive.

In 2004, she, together with James To Kun Sun, Frederick Fung Kin Kee, Wong Sing Chi, Mak Kwok Fung, attempted to cross the border and meet Beijing officials at Shenzhen, to request a faster pace of democratisation in Hong Kong.

In order to provide faster service, the iXpress stops only at thirteen stations along its route, rather than having many closely spaced request stops as do most other GRT routes.