Dean Denton It's still traveling though space, it can take upwards to 100,000 years for a radio wave to full degrade. Sure its not as strong and probably very distorted but still traveling though in the vacuum of space
Thanks for posting this. My grandfather, Adam Stein, Jr, was Reginald Fessenden's chief engineer at Brant Rock and was present at the time of the Christmas Eve and New Years Eve broadcasts. He was the one who had his voice heard first across the Atlantic and had the "first case of mic fright". Regards, George Stein, NJ3H Redmond, Oregon USA
Another first case of ' mic fright ' that I heard about was I think from some old Edison book that had a lot of detail, when they built the first phonograph recording machine Edison wanted the guy that built it to speak into it first.. When he started cranking the first thing recorded was the guy saying " I don't know what to say, YOU say something " so then Edison recited Mary Had Little Lamb.
My grandmother, who was born in 1890 and grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, said she and a bunch of friends crowded into an unheated shack in the middle of winter to hear the first radio broadcast. I wondered how that was possible, since people would have had radios to hear it and the technology wouldn't have gotten around yet. She did attend the local college, and had cousins who got into radio technology, so perhaps they had rounded it up. Anyhow, her story now becomes believable. Thank you!
I know you cant ask her now, but would you know if these radio "classes" started before the broadcast? I assume based on your statement they did but would you know why and how? Did they announce the technology and then people started working on it?
There were two earphones and 2 or 3 people could get close enuf to share the sound from each one and/or could "rotate" around so each got a chance to hear some of the broadcast. Either way it was possible for a crowd..... 42 years later I was doing that in the Boy Scouts for radio merit badge Fiddling with the "cats whisker" trying to find the "sweet spot" on the crystal, adjusting the "wiper" on the coil to the right inductance (even before you really knew what inductance was 😆). Then the Scout Master had to listen so he would sign off on the badge.. Ahhhh those were the days.
This is the begging of RUclips. This is the begging of the wide area network. That we all have become a part of. Sharing information through voice. How blessed are we to have this. Much love and respect to our forefathers.
It probably sounds like an odd thing to say but thanks to technology for being able to listen to this broadcast. I thoroughly enjoy listening to these old broadcasts and imagine what life was like back then. I do think that life back in these days was much better, simpler, and peaceful.
Can you imagine how surprised people would be to hear voice and music over the air, when previously they had only heard the dots and dashes of a spark gap transmitter. I remember reading a short story about this in grade school, back when they used to celebrate scientific and technical achievements.
uh nobody had a radio in 1906. The only people who would have heard it would have been the people who had the one radio. Just like the only person Bell could call when he built his telephone was the one man at the time who had a telephone, Mr. Watson.
@H Rearden He is not talking about a radio that was built for voice/ music transmission, he was talking about wireless telegraph transmitters/ receivers. By 1906, if this radio transmission was either strong, or happened in a heavily populated area, there is a slight chance that a wireless telegraph station or two could pick up the radio broadcast. But, wireless telegraph transmissions were not really popular until the 1910s.
The audience for these transmissions was primarily shipboard radio operators along the Atlantic seaboard. Fessenden claimed that the program had been widely publicized in advance, and the Christmas Eve broadcast had been heard "as far down" as Norfolk, Virginia, while the New Year Eve's broadcast had reached listeners in the West Indies.
@@airborne2876 The first music and voice ASTONISHED telegraphy people who had spent their careers hearing only dots and dashes. It was heard aboard ships in the Atlantic because they used wireless setups. Nobody expected their sets could pick up voice. It was the change in the transmitter.
I remember reading about this, and it did occur to me that there were people who were sat on ships, listening out for dots and dashes all day, and all of a sudden a voice comes on instead. Do you think anyone would believe them at all? Could you imagine the radio traffic as they all start asking in morse code if other ship receivers picked it up? Truly incredible moment.
For a second I thought he was going to veer off into, "I believe I have made a significant find in the Castle of Kandar. Having journeyed there with my wife Henrietta, my daughter Annie and Associate Professor Ed Getly. It was in the rear chamber of the castle that we stumbled upon something remarkable..."
Drugs weren't illegal, no income tax, put one's children to work when they could walk; but, no antibiotics, just about anything could kill ya. I'd have to adapt quickly, but I'd be stoned doing it. Let's talk about synthetic polymers, folks.
This is a recording of the very first radio broadcast in the history of the world. It was made by the invetor Reginald A. Fessenden on Christmas eve 1906
Really nice! I just read that this was also the first occasion of mike fright: Fessenden's wife and assistant were supposed to read the Bible passages, but froze on the spot, so Fessenden did it himself...
the voice of that man is just an actuation because in the past people had a british accent and the voice was more thin due the poor quality of the first microphones and signals for a radio . Wish a real audio of those years can exist
The First was in 1901 Newfoundland Canada.... Across the Atlantic Ocean heard in London UK...this is very cool To hear this....now it is traveling though space... Aliens are hearing this Now...150 Years ago WOW.....Thay would be shocked at what we have today....with our Phone and Notebooks we can see every place on Earth also Space with a touch of a Button!!!
If this is, indeed, the first radio broadcast, then the narrator read one thing he would not DARE to read today, the HOLY SCRIPTURES declaring the BIRTH of OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!
I can't believe this supposed first radio broadcast from 1906 isn't a fake ! 🤔 Because in 1906 magnetic recording systems , which could have record this broadcasting, weren't invented yet! And for a recording with a Edison phonograph or a Bell gramophon the quality of the voice is too good . This would not happen before the thirties of the last century . The quality of early recordings with magnetic syatems is really astonishing even when they were in mono . I believe of course , that the first broadcasting actually happend in 1906 with this program and by these people. But I think this recording must be reconstruction of it since recordings of a broadcasting weren't technically possible in 1906.
So, I assume the listeners of this first voice radio broadcast used headphones because speakers and amplifiers hadn't been invented yet. PS I find this near impossible to believe because of the audio quality being reproduced from a supposed Bakelite or shellac Edison type cylinder and then played back through modern equipment for us here. Also, the manner of speech and speaking used is also suspect, especially for 1906.
Praise God that he broadcast the Bible account of the Great News. Was this digitally improved? It seems clearer than I expected for the first voice transmission in 1906. I expected something like a old two way radio with the voice very low and a need to maybe listen carefully to make it out.
very intresting to say the least!! but it isnt the first raido brodcast i found a video with audio from the 1890s and includes alot of "stand up" comedy from back then along with iconic broadasts !
Cool MC Fessenden rocking the Air waves! I remember reading about this dude in school and how much he contributed to Radio and sonar! Check out all his patents! wow! Im surprised that $hithead Edison didn't buy him out and shut him down like Tesla!
Not many people heard the original broadcast. It was 1906 and no one owned a radio. This was all for experimental purpose's. It wasn't until the 1930s that everyone owned a big wooden radio.
The earliest experimental AM transmissions began in the early 1900s. However, widespread AM broadcasting was not established until the 1920s, following the development of vacuum tube receivers and transmitters.
this radio signal is far away from this planet Earth right now. I wonder if those people on other planets will be able to receive this signal? If so I hope they find us real peaceful. I will find us as Christians too.
This would have been in the low frequency spectrum, probably between 50 and 90 kHz. Fessenden reportedly got the word out by Morse to ships at sea three days in advance of the broadcast, telling them to be listening on two nights: Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve for a transmission of speech and music.
That voice quality is really good for 1906
this can't be real.
Too good
Its a reproduction
it literally says in the description that this is a reproduction
It’s a reproduction that’s been digitally washed
did you know this radio signal is still trvaleing trough space! what a sweet thought
emily schoonover Nah.. It only has a specific range.
Dean Denton
It's still traveling though space, it can take upwards to 100,000 years for a radio wave to full degrade. Sure its not as strong and probably very distorted but still traveling though in the vacuum of space
No it aint! It's MW.
radio wave frequencies do. Sonic (sound) do not. There IS a HUGE difference.
emily schoonover wow you just blew my mind!!
Thanks for posting this. My grandfather, Adam Stein, Jr, was Reginald Fessenden's chief engineer at Brant Rock and was present at the time of the Christmas Eve and New Years Eve broadcasts. He was the one who had his voice heard first across the Atlantic and had the "first case of mic fright".
Regards,
George Stein, NJ3H
Redmond, Oregon USA
Were you a science teacher?
Wow, I didn't know they recorded it too, or was this just re - creation of th÷ event?
Wow : o
@@michaelszczys8316 It's real.
Another first case of ' mic fright ' that I heard about was I think from some old Edison book that had a lot of detail, when they built the first phonograph recording machine Edison wanted the guy that built it to speak into it first.. When he started cranking the first thing recorded was the guy saying " I don't know what to say, YOU say something " so then Edison recited Mary Had Little Lamb.
My grandmother, who was born in 1890 and grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, said she and a bunch of friends crowded into an unheated shack in the middle of winter to hear the first radio broadcast. I wondered how that was possible, since people would have had radios to hear it and the technology wouldn't have gotten around yet. She did attend the local college, and had cousins who got into radio technology, so perhaps they had rounded it up. Anyhow, her story now becomes believable. Thank you!
That’s amazing you have any more stories she just have seen roaring 20s Ans Great Depression
I know you cant ask her now, but would you know if these radio "classes" started before the broadcast? I assume based on your statement they did but would you know why and how? Did they announce the technology and then people started working on it?
@@rogoznicafc9672 Newspapers - "this is gonna happen - this is when".
There were two earphones and 2 or 3 people could get close enuf to share the sound from each one and/or could "rotate" around so each got a chance to hear some of the broadcast. Either way it was possible for a crowd.....
42 years later I was doing that in the Boy Scouts for radio merit badge Fiddling with the "cats whisker" trying to find the "sweet spot" on the crystal, adjusting the "wiper" on the coil to the right inductance (even before you really knew what inductance was 😆). Then the Scout Master had to listen so he would sign off on the badge.. Ahhhh those were the days.
I had his grandson as my science teacher in middle school
That's awesome!
***** yes it was truly badass
Was it George Stein Jr, because he has 2nd top comment
This is the begging of RUclips.
This is the begging of the wide area network.
That we all have become a part of.
Sharing information through voice.
How blessed are we to have this.
Much love and respect to our forefathers.
It probably sounds like an odd thing to say but thanks to technology for being able to listen to this broadcast. I thoroughly enjoy listening to these old broadcasts and imagine what life was like back then. I do think that life back in these days was much better, simpler, and peaceful.
Life was a lot more painful and a lot shorter, people worked much longer hours and life was tough
Life was simple if you survived the first years until you got in your 20's and healthproblems that nobody could fix started to kick in
Tommorow, this will be 110 years old
Today, it is 111 years old! :-)
The future was now
Now it’s 113 years old
It's a reproduction
114
Can you imagine how surprised people would be to hear voice and music over the air, when previously they had only heard the dots and dashes of a spark gap transmitter. I remember reading a short story about this in grade school, back when they used to celebrate scientific and technical achievements.
uh nobody had a radio in 1906. The only people who would have heard it would have been the people who had the one radio. Just like the only person Bell could call when he built his telephone was the one man at the time who had a telephone, Mr. Watson.
@H Rearden
He is not talking about a radio that was built for voice/ music transmission, he was talking about wireless telegraph transmitters/ receivers.
By 1906, if this radio transmission was either strong, or happened in a heavily populated area, there is a slight chance that a wireless telegraph station or two could pick up the radio broadcast. But, wireless telegraph transmissions were not really popular until the 1910s.
The audience for these transmissions was primarily shipboard radio operators along the Atlantic seaboard. Fessenden claimed that the program had been widely publicized in advance, and the Christmas Eve broadcast had been heard "as far down" as Norfolk, Virginia, while the New Year Eve's broadcast had reached listeners in the West Indies.
@@airborne2876 The first music and voice ASTONISHED telegraphy people who had spent their careers hearing only dots and dashes. It was heard aboard ships in the Atlantic because they used wireless setups. Nobody expected their sets could pick up voice. It was the change in the transmitter.
Delighted to listen to crystal radio history . I hope this is never lost.
No Copyright infringement intended? If it's from 1906, it's Public Domain!
i thought this would be creepy but its actually quite relaxing
Could you imagine the excitement or the panic....It's kinda freaky to know that the world as you know it is never going to be the same.
I remember reading about this, and it did occur to me that there were people who were sat on ships, listening out for dots and dashes all day, and all of a sudden a voice comes on instead.
Do you think anyone would believe them at all?
Could you imagine the radio traffic as they all start asking in morse code if other ship receivers picked it up?
Truly incredible moment.
The voice is soooo preserved that it sounds like 2000's voice.
I thought the same thing; it's so clear. I know it's weird to say, but the scratchy background sound is kind of relaxing.
Yeah it’s a reproduction, so it’s not the original voice.
If aliens were listening 100 light years away, they would probably just be hearing this broadcast now.
True.
Solar systems we see, that lies like 500 million light years away are the light they produced when life begun on earth.
and 100 years before we get their reply
For a second I thought he was going to veer off into, "I believe I have made a significant find in the Castle of Kandar. Having journeyed there with my wife Henrietta, my daughter Annie and Associate Professor Ed Getly. It was in the rear chamber of the castle that we stumbled upon something remarkable..."
I remember this. Some good times
You too?
I also remember this, I was 21 years old back in 1906
I was doing my homework on the media and it came out that this was the first radio broadcast, and I wanted to listen to it. Greetings from Panama
I say.... remember back in 1906 we had quite a jolly time
The year of the Great Quake in San Francisco
Drugs weren't illegal, no income tax, put one's children to work when they could walk; but, no antibiotics, just about anything could kill ya. I'd have to adapt quickly, but I'd be stoned doing it. Let's talk about synthetic polymers, folks.
Back when we were gay young blades...and we didn’t have to say “no homo” after making that statement
Indubitably may ol chup
it wasn't us but someone did
I was sure it wasn't genuine when I heard the sound quality. Such quality wasn't achieved until the late 20s or early 30s.
I thought it was real, but professionally and digitally enhanced.
this is a reproduction it says in the description
This is wonderful! I wasn't aware the fitst voice broadcast was made that far back!
My close friend was 9 months old when this was broadcast.
This is a recording of the very first radio broadcast in the history of the world. It was made by the invetor Reginald A. Fessenden on Christmas eve 1906
please tell me what was the first?
Yes, of course it a reenactment
This guy has better microphone then I have
Nice and clear as one would expect from a 114 yr old recording. 🧐🧐🧐
Interesting! 14 years before the first commercial station in my Hometown. KDKA!
Steel City 🤙🏿
@@dionysiusakeem9029 Yes, and Iron City Beer!
Damn, this is surprisingly clear and good quality
It’s a reproduction
It hit its peak with the WOLFMAN JACK SHOW. What a great time to have been young and in California.Dream Land
I miss old California..
True...Not "DREAMER-land" as it has become.
Really nice! I just read that this was also the first occasion of mike fright: Fessenden's wife and assistant were supposed to read the Bible passages, but froze on the spot, so Fessenden did it himself...
Fantástico documento sonoro sobre la historia de la radio.
I was there in 1906. I remember hearing this for the first time as we sailed in to port. Still to this day it brings me to tears
How...
Hahaha...
@@valg4510 You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
@@MultiRabe You don't believe me?
That sounds just like it would back in the 1900's. Great job in re-creating the radio broadcast!
Ok, Cool!
The actual broadcast would not sound great since it occurred back in the 1900's, to be honest.
Merry Christmas Eve, 2017!
Amazing this recorded is have 116 years old
Still in 1906 the first ever radio broadcast is better then the mexican kid's mic on Xbox Live.
THIS AUDIO IS FROM 118 YEARS AGO? WHAT?
Merry Christmas
This is a simulated version right?
1:37 'Run Forest Run!'
the voice of that man is just an actuation
because in the past people had a british accent
and the voice was more thin due the poor quality
of the first microphones and signals for a radio .
Wish a real audio of those years can exist
Congratulations if you found this video
Fantastic recreation
Um, I thought the first radio broadcast was in 1920 by KDKA in Pittsburgh.
The First was in 1901 Newfoundland Canada.... Across the Atlantic Ocean heard in London UK...this is very cool To hear this....now it is traveling though space... Aliens are hearing this Now...150 Years ago WOW.....Thay would be shocked at what we have today....with our Phone and Notebooks we can see every place on Earth also Space with a touch of a Button!!!
Spark wireless, not the human voice and recorded music.
If this is, indeed, the first radio broadcast, then the narrator read one thing he would not DARE to read today, the HOLY SCRIPTURES declaring the BIRTH of OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!
at 0:50 it starts showing the recording used in the broadcast
Amazing...is this his voice, or a recreation?
It's a re-enactment, based on descriptions given more than 20 years after the fact.
This is a recreation. I've heard the original. It's not this. Nice version, though.
Were can I find the original?
There is no recording from 1906. This broadcast was not even mentioned in writing until 22 years after the fact.
This broadcast is about 200 light years away from earth right now!
is 114
I can't believe this supposed first radio broadcast from 1906 isn't
a fake ! 🤔
Because in 1906 magnetic recording systems , which could have record this broadcasting, weren't invented yet!
And for a recording with a Edison phonograph or a Bell gramophon the quality of the voice is too good .
This would not happen before the thirties of the last century .
The quality of early recordings with magnetic syatems is really astonishing even when they were in mono .
I believe of course , that the first broadcasting actually happend in 1906 with this program and by these people.
But I think this recording must be reconstruction of it since recordings of a broadcasting weren't technically possible in 1906.
Back in '20, i was but a wee dewdropper. My gal was no bluenose..she was a bearcat....she was the bees knees!! (Ive exhausted my 20s slang)
So, I assume the listeners of this first voice radio broadcast used headphones because speakers and amplifiers hadn't been invented yet.
PS I find this near impossible to believe because of the audio quality being reproduced from a supposed Bakelite or shellac Edison type cylinder and then played back through modern equipment for us here. Also, the manner of speech and speaking used is also suspect, especially for 1906.
Given that the audience was naval and merchant ships radio operators I'd say that's a safe bet.
But why the voice is so good.
Praise God that he broadcast the Bible account of the Great News. Was this digitally improved? It seems clearer than I expected for the first voice transmission in 1906. I expected something like a old two way radio with the voice very low and a need to maybe listen carefully to make it out.
It’s a reproduction based on how it might have sounded. Unfortunately the original was never recorded. I would have loved to hear it.
God Bless and thank you very much for the information.
@@daruscole1586 merry Christmas my friend
@@goldenphonautogram6141 A big God Bless and you too 🙂
very intresting to say the least!! but it isnt the first raido brodcast i found a video with audio from the 1890s and includes alot of "stand up" comedy from back then along with iconic broadasts !
Did the original broadcast not survive?
Cool MC Fessenden rocking the Air waves! I remember reading about this dude in school and how much he contributed to Radio and sonar! Check out all his patents! wow! Im surprised that $hithead Edison didn't buy him out and shut him down like Tesla!
Vessel Of Oblivion; Prepare Yourselves
Was the broadcast sound recorded at the same time?
No.
This must be early Keith Richards
와우....세계최초의 라디오방송이라네요...감동입니다.
how the hell does it sound that good it was from 1906
It's a re-enactment.
imagine if theres an alien civilisasion out there who think they're alone and the first thing they hear is this
It’s fake guys, this is way too good quality for radio, let alone any kind of recording equipment back then.
Not many people heard the original broadcast. It was 1906 and no one owned a radio. This was all for experimental purpose's. It wasn't until the 1930s that everyone owned a big wooden radio.
heard by wireless ops at sea.
What was re-created? The narration? The music?
All of it.
This is a re-creation, voice is way too clear
Canadian born Reginald Fessenden.
Even when this music is well over 100 years old it still sounds better than eminem or bitch lasagna.
Was the actual broadcast ever recorded?
No.
Jesus it sounds like a mosquito right next to your ear
And people say Handel wad bad
I wonder if a temporal machine can lock onto this signal.📡
Bro this is not real it sounds to good
That's funny because am wasn't invented until 1920 but I did hear a story about 1906 but I think it's just a story
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_broadcasting
The earliest experimental AM transmissions began in the early 1900s. However, widespread AM broadcasting was not established until the 1920s, following the development of vacuum tube receivers and transmitters.
this radio signal is far away from this planet Earth right now. I wonder if those people on other planets will be able to receive this signal? If so I hope they find us real peaceful. I will find us as Christians too.
Jack Wolf So they had Jesus too?
I think so. God is all over the universe.
This has been edited. The voice is way to clear and rich... Trick No Good!!!
This isn't the true broadcast ppl.
What frequency was that on and how did people know to tune in?
This would have been in the low frequency spectrum, probably between 50 and 90 kHz. Fessenden reportedly got the word out by Morse to ships at sea three days in advance of the broadcast, telling them to be listening on two nights: Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve for a transmission of speech and music.
Who still uses am radio bc I do
This is a recreation, not the real thing.
da baby
how turns coil inductor?
Why not play the real broadcast?
It's was probley never recorded, just broadcasted
It's was probley never recorded, just broadcasted
It says “recreation” so it’s not actually what it says it is.....
There was no radio in 1906!
Real???
A truly lovely reproduction, thanks so very, very much for making this! But was the original 1906 broadcast ever recorded for replay?
lol me
Think God had a hand in this ?
ha yeah funny thing i caugth the broadcast on my radio a few hours ago on a radio station that didnt work i was surprised so i well had fun hearing it
This is NOT AUTHENTIC. It's a dramatic recreation.
xD
Sounds like a bee in a jar.
Sounds fake
I just associate this song with Mary Bennet embarrassing herself with her horrendous singing
Bollocks
What part of REPRODUCTION do you not understand? LOL
Fake
thats quite a statement
NEWS FLASH: RADIO IS FAKE. IT NEVER HAPPENED
Rampage Clover buddy- it says REPRODUCTION at the start of the description!
Fake.
This « Ombra mai fu » interpretation has dated LOL