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On a lovely, forested hillside overlooking Tomales Bay, just south of Marshall, sits the 110-year-old Marconi Conference Center. It was gifted to the state of California in 1989 after a purchase ma… ...
Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in ...
In the final hours it took the R.M.S. Titanic to sink, wireless telegraph operators issued a series of increasingly frantic messages calling for rescue. They went from detailed to desperate. The ...
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020 file photo, artifacts recovered from the Titanic sit on shelves at a storage facility in Atlanta. A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve ...
San Diego was a very remote destination in those early decades, so when a wireless telegraph station was proposed for the top of Point Loma in 1905, there was plenty of real estate to work with ...
The Marconi wireless radio system played an important role on the Titanic. After the ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, the system was used to send out distress signals to other ships.
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In the final hours it took the R.M.S. Titanic to sink, wireless telegraph operators issued a series of increasingly frantic messages calling for rescue. They went from detailed to desperate. The ...
The firm said Titanic's wireless telegraph played a crucial role in saving the 706 survivors. Witnesses said the machine is iconic and would connect people to the ship's legacy and its passengers.