How Christmas Eve launched wireless communication

On December 24, 1906, a quiet but decisive moment occurred in the history of communication. Radio operators on ships in the North Atlantic expected the familiar crackle of Morse code as usual—instead, they heard something entirely new: music and a human voice, transmitted wirelessly over the open sea. More than a century later, the principles demonstrated that evening still form the foundation of the wireless systems upon which today's global electronics and communications industry is built