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The Gift
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Radio and the First Wave of Radio Technology
Morse code operators on ships readied their pencils to take down the communication and then quickly share it with their captains. It had been 45 years since Johann Reis's first attempts at transmitting a voice electronically without wires. Fessiden's broadcast was the first attempt at instant mass communication. But again, there would be another long wait before the next big advancements in technology have reproduced sound.
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