ON THIS DAY

December 24, 1906

Inventor Reginald Fessenden of Milton-Est, Que., made the first public broadcast of music and voice from Brant Rock, Mass. A Christmas concert radioed to ships’ crews in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea started at 9 p.m. It was the first transmission of what is known as amplitude modulation (or AM radio). Fessenden fiddled a rendition of “O Silent Night” after a recording

of Handel’s “Largo” was heard.