Wireless telegraphs across the world start receiving a signal
Age of Deafness ends
Age of Blindness begins
The Signal is instantly recognized as morse code and is copied to paper in 5 countries
Message Reads
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We come with peace trade
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we can teach if you help
The message repeats continuously
Wireless telegraphers unable to receive any other signal
Pittsburgh loses the use of its wireless telegraph, Reginald Fessenden is unaware of the situation
Wireless telegraphers stationed at Royal Navy Dockyard in Portsmith ask for the location and nationality of the ship transmitting
Paola Borboni is born in Parma, Italy
Tesla awakened by assistants at Tesla Experimental Station in Colorado Springs
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick William Richards is informed of the situation
Wireless telegraphers stationed at Naval Station Pearl Harbor are unable to reach the nearby USS Nero
South Foreland lighthouse at Dover and the East Goodwin lightship lose communication with each other
SS Saint Paul loses the use of her wireless telegraph
SS Mont-Blanc Collided with SS Imo off the coast of Dover, 150 dead including Count Bezzi Scali and Countess Anna Scali
Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil is informed of the situation
Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan make substantial investments in Wireless telegraph and astronomical research
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi mistakes the situation, he attributes it to a hardware problem and begins to dismantle his equipment.
3 boys taken into custody on suspicion they were throwing copper coins at the antenna in Portsmith
W. F. Nisbet, The steamer was sunk by ice near Wellsburg, Kentucky.
Chiune Sugihara is born in Mino, Gifu prefecture
President William McKinley is informed of the situation
NYSE Market closes S&P 500 down 9 points
George Dewey, John Davis Long, and the president have a secret meeting at a house belonging to Long's cousin.
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Ages of awakening: A Radio-Punk Timeline
Historical FictionThe title is in reference to humans waking up, realizing that we are not alone. The age of deafness is all of human history before the POD, before we could truly hear. What If as soon as humans had the means for wireless communication someone called...
