Editing Reginald Fessenden (section)

===National Electric Signaling Company===
[[File:National Electric Signalling Company (1904 advertisement).gif|thumb|right|325px|April 1904 company advertisement<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433090837729&view=1up&seq=600 National Electric Signalling Company] (advertisement), ''The Electrician'', April 22, 1904, p. xxi.</ref>]]
{{Other uses|NESCO (disambiguation){{!}}NESCO}}
In November 1902, two wealthy [[Pittsburgh]] businessmen, Hay Walker Jr. and Thomas H. Given, financed the formation of the National Electric Signaling Company (NESCO) to support Fessenden's research. Initially the new company was based in Washington, D.C., where a station was constructed for experimental and demonstration purposes. Two additional demonstration stations were constructed at Collingswood, New Jersey (near Philadelphia) and Jersey City, New Jersey (near New York City).<ref>Aitken (1985), p. 70.</ref> In 1904 an attempt was made to link the General Electric plants in Schenectady, New York, and Lynn, Massachusetts, a distance of {{convert|185|mile|km}}, however the effort was unsuccessful.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112008072784&view=1up&seq=781 "Some Interesting Radio History"], ''Radio World'', September 8, 1923, p. 21.</ref>

Efforts to sell equipment to the U.S. and other governments, as well as private companies, met with little success. An ongoing area of conflict, especially with the U.S. Navy, were the high prices Fessenden tried to charge. The Navy in particular felt Fessenden's quotes were too far above the device's manufacturing costs to be considered reasonable, and contracted with other companies to build equipment that used Fessenden designs. This led to bad feelings and a series of patent infringement lawsuits. An alternate plan to sell the company as a whole was unsuccessful in finding a buyer. Eventually a radical change in company orientation took place. In 1904 it was decided to compete with the existing ocean cables, by setting up a transatlantic radiotelegraph link. The headquarters for company operations was moved to [[Brant Rock, Massachusetts|Brant Rock]], [[Massachusetts]], which was to be the western terminal for the proposed new service.<ref>Fessenden, Helen (1940) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4540711&view=1up&seq=138 pp. 124–126].</ref>