ABSTRACT
A little after midday on 12 December 1901, three bursts of electromagnetic radiation travelled above the Atlantic ocean at 186,000 miles per second … beep beep beep, from Poldhu, in the south-western corner of England to Marconi’s cabin on top of a hill in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Three beeps that spelt ‘S’ in Morse code. These beeps were radio transmissions connecting two geographically distant people who, just before lunch and breakfast respectively, experienced something unique. They heard the sound of geography collapsing. Marconi had delivered with an induction coil and a spark discharger an experience previously promised and faked by mystics and shamans.
