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National Electric Signaling Company

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The National Electric Signaling Company was an American firm established in 1902 by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden and two Pittsburgh financiers. Its primary goal was to manufacture Fessenden's inventions, particularly for wireless communication, with the intention of selling them to entities like the U.S. Navy and shipping companies. The company also aimed to compete with Guglielmo Marconi in transatlantic transmissions. Fessenden achieved transatlantic wireless telegraphic communication between Massachusetts and Scotland in 1906, and later that year, he broadcast the first program of music and voice on Christmas Eve. Differences in business practices led Fessenden to leave the company in 1911. The company eventually became defunct, and its patents were purchased by a group of companies including the Radio Corporation of America.1

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  1. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
  2. The Signal Companies, Inc.

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