{"id":3201,"date":"2010-06-07T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fessenden-reginald-aubrey\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:22:22","slug":"fessenden-reginald-aubrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fessenden-reginald-aubrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reginald Aubrey<\/strong> F<\/strong>essenden<\/strong>, <\/strong>(1866-1932)\u00a0<\/strong>was a Canadian-born electrical engineer and inventor. After joining the Edison Machine Works in 1886, he rose to become chief chemist of the Edison organisation in 1890. He subsequently held academic posts at the University of Pittsburgh and worked for the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission.<\/p>\n

Fessenden made an early wireless transmission of intelligible speech over approximately one mile on December 23, 1900. On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1906, he made the better-known broadcast of speech and music to wireless operators at sea.<\/p>\n

Fessenden investigated an ancient civilisation in the Caucasus<\/a> and identified it as Atlantis. The famous Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie<\/a>, was interested in his work, which revealed evidence that people from the Caucasus had an influence on the development of ancient Egyptian culture(b<\/sup>)<\/sup>. Dr Margaret Murray (1863-1963), who worked with Petrie, was also sympathetic to this view. More recently, Ronnie Gallagher<\/a> has taken up this cause(c<\/sup>)<\/sup> and has gone further by suggesting the possibility that not only were migrants from the Caucasus responsible for kick-starting the development of Egyptian culture, but that people from the same region had a similar influence on the early inhabitants of Sumeria<\/a> and the Indus Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fessenden approached the Smithsonian seeking help with organising an expedition to Russia to search for evidence in support of his theories. Their response of March 1924 is available online(e<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Fessenden was also the author of T<\/em>he <\/em>D<\/em>eluged <\/em>C<\/em>ivilisation of the <\/em>C<\/em>aucasus <\/em>I<\/em>sthmus<\/em> published in three parts between 1923 and 1933 and now available on the Internet(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup>. In this extensive work, he discusses an alternative interpretation of the geography of early Greek myths and its consequences for Plato\u2019s story of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

The journal Nature<\/em> published a very brief review of Fessenden’s work in the 20th Dec. 1924 edition(g<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Fessenden’s monumental work on the civilisations of the Caucasus concludes with a short paper having the interesting title of Synopsis of Some Unpublished Chapters of the Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus.<\/em> In it he notes a number of intriguing points, bearing in mind that this was written nearly a century ago.<\/p>\n

“The names of the gods of the Babylonian Creation legend, i.e. Lakamu, Lakmu, Kingu, Anshar, An, Marduk, Gaga, are the names of the most prominent mountains of the Caucasus range. The names are all unchanged except Kingu, now Elbruz, and Anshar, now Kasbek, whose old names are given in the Encyclopedia Britannica, article “Caucasus”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost all of these names are very distinctive and are found nowhere else, e.g. Lakamu, Gaga, etc., though Kingu is found as Kongur on the shore of Lake Sevanga. In addition, their characteristics correspond with those of the gods. For example, Kingu is the greatest, Anshar next, then An; and Marduk is near Anshar, and Gaga is a smaller mountain between Marduk and Terek. The Apsu was the crest of the range.”<\/em> (f<\/sup>)<\/sup><\/p>\n

He also identified the Jakin or eastern Pillars of Hercules as shown on one of Adolf Stieler’s maps on the old shore of the Caspian Sea and furthermore, he quoted from Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em>, ‘Babylonia’, where similarities between the names of locations in Babylonia and Finland are noted!<\/p>\n

In 1940, Fessenden’s widow, Helen, just a year before her own death, completed Reginald’s unfinished autobiography [1615<\/a>]<\/sup>. In Chapter 28, his support for Atlantis being situated in the Caucasus is reiterated.<\/p>\n

Jason Colavito<\/a> has written a short critique of Fessenden’s work(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.radiocom.net\/Deluge\/Deluge1-6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>https:\/\/www.radiocom.net\/Deluge\/Deluge7-10.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.radiocom.net\/Deluge\/Deluge11.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(b<\/sup>) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/flinders-petrie-on-atlantis.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/grahamhancock.com\/gallagherr1\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(d) <\/sup> <\/span>https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/on-atlantis-berossus-and-alternative-scholarship<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(f) SYNOPSIS OF SOME UNPUBLISHED CHAPTERS OF THE DELUGED CIVILIZATION OF THE CAUCASUS ISTHMUS (lektsia.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/114892c0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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