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On December 23, 1900, on Cobb Island, Maryland, Reginald Fessenden made the first wireless transmission of human speech. Although Marconi is credited with the invention of the wireless telegraph, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden achieved the first successful wireless transmission of human speech. He worked for Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse and established the Electrical Engineering Department at Purdue University. His work on Cobb Island was supported by the U.S. Weather Bureau, which sought to transmit weather forecasts wirelessly to ships at sea. Reginald Fessenden was a pioneer of radio as it is known today.
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