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Reginald Fessenden, an Uncommon card
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Reginald Fessenden quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Reginald Fessenden card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Fessenden pioneered developments in radio technology, including the ______ of amplitude modulation radio.
Answer
foundations. Fessenden pioneered developments in radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation radio. From the Reginald Fessenden article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Zinc chloride. Zinc chloride 39,000 · Reginald Fessenden 26,000 · Conrad Gessner 17,000 · Discovery and exploration of the Solar System 13,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Fessenden pioneered developments in radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation radio.
- His achievements included the first transmission of speech by radio, and the first two-way radiotelegraphic communication across the Atlantic Ocean.
- In 1932 he claimed that, in late 1906, he had also made the first radio broadcast of entertainment and music, although that claim has not been well documented.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Reginald Fessenden article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Reginald Fessenden (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : None listed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
