On March 9, 1943, a U. S. Navy destroyer the USS Fessenden (DE‐142) was christened by the wife of his son, Reginald Kennelly Fessenden, at the Consolidated Steel Works, Orange, Texas.

Words found on a lintel above the tomb at St. Marks Church, Bermuda read:

“By his genius distant lands converse…And men sail unafraid of the deep.”

Some of RAF Patents:

Silicon Alloys 452,494 (1891); Design & Construction of X Ray Equipment 648,660 (1900); Heterodyne Principle 706,738 ‐ 706,739 – 706,740 (1902), 1,050,441 (1913), 1,050,728 (1914); Rectification 706,736 (1902); F. Alternator 706,737 (1902); Arc Oscillator (Mention) 706,742 (1902); Radio Telephone 706,747 (1902); Multiplexing 715,203 (1902), 727,326 (1903), 981,406 (19011); Point Contact Rectifier 727,327 (1903); Electrolytic Detector 727,331 (1903); Vertical Antenna 793,651 (1905); Anti‐Static Device 918,306 – 918,307 (1909); Directive Antenna Array 1,020,032 (1912); Storage of Wheeled Vehicles 1,114,975 (1914); Internal Combustion Engine 1,132,465 (1915); Sound Production & Signaling 1,108,895 (1914), 1,207,387 ‐1,207,388 – 1,311,157 (1916), 1,277,562 (1918), 1,384,855 (1920); Submarine Signaling & Detection 1,348,556 – 1,348,828 – 1,348,855 (1920), 1,429,497 (1922); Subsurface Directive Signaling 1,348,856 – 1,355,598 (1920); Ship Location 1,319,145 (1919); Fathometer 1,217,585 (1917); Geophysical Prospecting With Sound 1,240,328 (1917); Water Storage & Power Generation 1,214,531 (1910), 1,247,520 (1917); Gun Location by Sound 1,341,795

Sources: Michael L. Everette, Jr. Master’s Thesis NC State 1972; Fessenden – Builder of Tomorrows by Helen M. Fessenden (1940); “The Cosmic Inventor” by Frederick Seitz (1999); “Wireless Under Water” by Burton J. Hendrick (Aug. 1914); Outer Banks History Center, 1 Festival Park Boulevard, Manteo, NC.

Kenneth J. Daidone, N2KJD, Manteo, North Carolina

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