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A wireless telegraph machine, sometimes called the "voice of the Titanic" for its role in sending out distress messages on the fateful night in 1912 when the RMS Titanic cruise liner hit an ...
Titanic telegraph machine can be removed despite 'remains of more than 1,500 people' 'Transmissions sent among those ships’ wireless operators tell the story of Titanic’s desperate fate that ...
Divers have recovered the main telegraph machine from the Lusitania, the wreck at the center of one of the most infamous maritime disasters of the 20th century.
A salvage firm has received approval from a judge in Virginia to remove the telegraph machine from the famous wreck that was used to send distress signals when the liner sank more than 100 years ago.
Historian David Saint-Pierre spent months trying to track down an artifact that was once on board the Empress of Ireland ...
NORFOLK, Va. — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls from the sinking Titanic ocean liner.
The roof above the telegraph machine has begun to perforate. "I'm not sure if we go in 2020 that the roof won't be collapsed on everything,” testified Paul Henry Nargeolet, director of the ...
Removal of the telegraph machine, located inside the ship’s officers’ quarters, may require cutting or widening holes in the hull and detaching equipment from interior walls.
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The spread of telegraph lines during the mid-19 th century presented a new possibility: Two people could have a synchronous conversation from hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. They might ...