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What did Fessenden's work in radio technology lay the foundations for?

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AM radio broadcasting owes its existence to the groundbreaking work of Reginald Fessenden in radio technology. His pioneering experiments and innovations in the early 20th century laid the foundation for the development of amplitude modulation (AM), a method of transmitting sound over radio waves by varying their amplitude in accordance with the sound signal.
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