wireless telegraph
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The Marconi room holds the ship’s radio — a Marconi wireless telegraph machine — which broadcast the Titanic’s increasingly frantic distress signals after the ocean liner hit an iceberg.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023
Broadcast distress calls via wireless telegraph: “Carferry 18 is sinking midlake - help - help”
From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2020
As inventor of the wireless telegraph, Guglielmo Marconi was a central figure in the development of twentieth-century communications.
From Nature • Jul. 19, 2016
An English clockmaker, John Harrison, finally figured it out, and his marine chronometer, along with the wireless telegraph later, was the first instrument to reliably determine longitude.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015
Through the miracle of the wireless telegraph, news of the whirlwind romance between Camilla Cranston and Lord Peter Henslowe reached two continents before we docked.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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