Interesting to note that "electricity arcing through air" is pretty much exactly how our first radio transmitters worked, including the device used to send the

Interesting to note that "electricity arcing through air" is pretty much exactly how our first radio transmitters worked, including the device used to send the first transatlantic signal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter