Place:Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Name
Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock
Alternate names
Brant Rock     (Wikipedia)
Ocean Bluff     (Wikipedia)
Type
Census-designated place
Coordinates
42.102°N 70.661°W
Located in
Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Ocean Bluff and Brant Rock are villages located in the town of Marshfield in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The population was 5,100 at the 2000 census.

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In January, 1906, Reginald Fessenden achieved the first two-way transatlantic radiotelegraph transmission, exchanging Morse code messages between his stations in Brant Rock and Machrihanish, Scotland. (Marconi had only achieved one-way transmissions prior to his date). On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1906, Fessenden transmitted from Brant Rock the first audio radio broadcast of music and entertainment in history. Radio operators on ships in the Atlantic heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing the song O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible.

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