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On December 24, 2006, the entire global community will celebrate the 100th anniversary of miraculous invention named broadcasting. 100 years back this discovery modified all the basic perception of inter human relations when in 1906, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden a Canadian scientist and engineer from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, first extended broadcast of the human voice, which was transmitted through the air

My parents despaired of me. They saw my future as a church minister or a teacher, but when I closed my eyes and dreamed, I saw an invention that could send voices around the world without using wires or cables. 'There's no future in that', my mother told me, and she was both right and wrong." These were the words of a genius, who was later recognised by the world as the 'Father of Broadcasting'.

The year of 1906 was very important for us. In fact, it served as a quoin in the history of the struggle that proved consequential for the creation of Pakistan, as Muslim League (the founding political party of Pakistan) was founded on December 30, 1906, in Dhaka. Likewise, on December 24, 1906, an event took place, that completely transformed the life pattern of people around the world. That event reasoned to change meanings of many words. Concepts of time, distance and communication were rewritten. On December 24, 2006, the entire global community is celebrating 100th anniversary of that miraculous achievement.

That incidence factually reasoned, to modify all the basic perception of inter human relations. On that auspicious December 24, 1906 night at 9:00 pm from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, first extended broadcast of the human voice was transmitted through the air.

Broadcasted from the 400-foot towers of the transmitting shack at Brant Rock, Massachusetts on the Atlantic coast. Exactly at nine O'clock, this programme was initiated with 'CQ CQ CQ', signifying a general call to all stations within range, and it was sent out in dots and dashes. Afterward, over the microphone, Reginald Fessenden himself delivered a brief speech. Straightaway, this was followed by one of the operators; turned on the Edison phonograph and a solo voice singing Handel's 'Largo'.

It was this success, which factually proved one of few such events, which imprinted nonpareil marks in the history of this planet. Nowadays, we commonly refer this planet as global village, and the Fessenden experiment was in reality a miracle that later on guided humans to current stage of sophistication and advancement.

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