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Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
1:00pm | Sunday 25 March 2012| Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
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The role of wireless is an often-overlooked aspect of the story of the Titanic. Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, Titanic Calling draws on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library to recount the fateful events of April 1912, from the first warnings of ice to the brief and poignant messages of the survivors.
The author, Michael Hughes, and co-editor, Katherine Bosworth, discuss the effectiveness of the use of wireless as the disaster unfolded. There is no doubt that it was instrumental in the rescue effort, but was there a failure to communicate ice warnings, and did this relatively new technology help or hinder as events unfolded?
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