My speciality. Шепелева М.А - 12 стр.

certainly a tragic conclusion to the life of the man who may have been the first
voice broadcaster Much better documented is the work of University of Pittsburgh
professor Reginald Fessenden. He correctly theorized that a continuous radio
(Hertzian) wave had much the same character as a sustained musical note and
therefore could be modulated to assume the shape of articulate speech. Fessenden
conducted groundbreaking work on how the voice (the program content) could be
placed onto a carrier wave for transmission as a series of amplitude modulations.
Fessenden also conceived of the radio transmission as a continuous wave rather
than as the interrupted wave used by Marconi and other wireless telegraphers. With
backing from two Pittsburgh financiers and the assistance of F. W. Alexanderson,
a General Electric Company engineer, Fessenden's experiments reached their
culmination in a 1906 Christmas Eve transmission from his Brant Rock,
Massachusetts, station to ships far out in the Atlantic.
        Imagine the surprise of seamen who, in stead of the familiar dote and
dashes, suddenly heard music and voices emanating from their wireless sets.
Briefly pioneering the role of on-air performer, the inventor played "0 Holy Night"
on his violin, read verses from the Bible, and wished his stupified audience a
Merry Christmas. On New Year's Eve, Fessenden aired another program that was
picked up as far away as the West Indies by the United Fruit Company's banana
boats. Seeking a more efficient means to direct those boats to waiting cargos,
United Fruit subsequently purchased a quantity of Fessenden equipment for use in
the Caribbean. But unfortunately for Fessenden, his company, like that of
Stubblefield, ran into a tangle of financial and legal difficulties and he was forced
from the, scene before profiting from the results of his technological contributions.

      2.2.2 Read the following words and phrases and learn them
by heart:

spark discharge device wavelength
Equipment
wireless telegraph
to transmit
pursuit
to span
to promote
miniscule
to die of starvation
broadcaster
amplitude modulation
to emanate
to purchase
wireless transmission
at the speed of light