 Sir
Sandford Fleming - creates world time system
- creates a global telegraph system that united the world in
communication
Any history of the Rogers group of
companies today must begin with a salute to Edward S. Rogers, Sr.
Every time a radio is turned on in Canada, the dream of Edward S.
Rogers, Sr. continues to be realized.
He envisioned radio as an electric pipeline, reaching into people’s
homes to entertain, inform and educate.
Rogers dropped out of U of T to invent a radio tube that operated on AC
current radically changing the
viability of radio in the average home
Alexander Graham Bell - invents the
telephone
- the telephone was revolutionary in its own right but it also paved the
way for the early Internet
 Reginald
Aubrey Fessenden (October
6, 1866
- July 22,
1932) was a
Canadian
inventor
born in
East Bolton,
Quebec,
the son of a
Protestant minister. Fessenden is second only to
Edison in the number of
patents
held in his name.Fessenden had become fascinated with
the idea of wireless telegraphy as a child when he saw
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrate
his telephone over a distance of several miles near Bell's home in
Ontario.
After training as an electrician, Fessenden began research that
subsequently took him
to the
United States, where he worked with
Thomas Edison as a chemist developing insulation for electrical
wires.
In 1892 he
worked with
George Westinghouse to light the
World Columbian Exposition in
Chicago.
Fessenden then became professor of electrical engineering at
Purdue University, and a year later he was
named head of electrical engineering at
Western University of Pennsylvania, the institution that was to
become
the modern University of Pittsburgh.
He obtained an
Alexanderson alternator of greater power from GE and on
Christmas Eve
1906,
he transmitted the first audio
radio
broadcast in history from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard
a
broadcast that included Fessenden playing the song
O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the
Bible
(from Wikipedia)
Adam Beck -
founder of Ontario Hydro using the green power of hydroelectricity
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