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Guglielmo Marconi
 
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Je Sais Tout (1910) GUGLIELMO MARCONI
About eighteen months after this picture was taken, Marconi would be a key witness at the Senate enquiry into the loss of the Titanic....
15th December 1910  
Le Petit Journal (1908) GUGLIELMO MARCONI
Portrait of Signor Marconi at the time when wireless linked Paris (France) and Casablanca (Morocco)...
24th November 1908  
New York Times (1912) MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD
Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan...
16th April 1912  
Wiltshire Times (1912) TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming...
20th April 1912  
Chicago Daily Journal (1912) THOMAS WHITELEY : WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES
Philips, the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post until the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life-raft and died before rescuers reached him, according to the story told here today by Thomas Whitely. ...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS
Flood of Telegrams of Sympathy Reaches Them from All England. --- Special Cable to The New York Times. --- LONDON, April 20.--Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Phillips of Farncombe, Godalming, parents of "Jack" Phillips, the hero...
21st April 1912  
Daily Express (1912) CAPTAIN SMITH AND SIGNOR MARCONI DUMMIES
Madame Tussaud's Exhibition - Several additions to this exhibition have been made since Easter; and the management have made various alterations in the building. The Titanic disaster is recalled by Mr John Tussaud's model of Captain Smith, ...
27th April 1912  
The Times (1926) ROSTRON BEATS HIMSELF TO NEW YORK BY WIRELESS
Page 17 Photograph sent by Wireless London to New York The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company states that when the Mauretania arrived in New York yesterday, under Captain Rostron, he found that a copy of his photograph had...
24th April 1926  
  MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT'
Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ...
   
KSPR (2009) HAM OPERATORS SAVED LIVES ABOARD THE TITANIC
When the Titanic went down almost exactly 97 years ago to the day in 1912 more than 1,500 people perished.But 706 survived, and maybe solely thanks to a Marconi radio used to signal for help....
16th April 2009  
New York Times (1912) BOY WIRELESS SAVED THEM
Rescues Resulted from Coltain's [sic] Untiring Devotion to Duty --- Harold Thomas Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia, through whose efforts more than to any one [sic] else the saving of a part of the Titanic's passengers wa...
19th April 1912  
Kent Messenger (1912) UNTITLED
Mr. Harold Bride, of Ravensbourne Avenue, Bromley, Kent, was at first reported as among those missing, but happily the news proved inaccurate, as his parents have received Marconi messages stating that their son, who was junior wireless operator on t...
20th April 1912  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (2005) SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER
OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...
22nd November 2005  
  DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY
   
Chicago American (1912) OLYMPIC BARRED SENDING TITANIC NEWS BY WIRELESS
By wireless to Glace Bay, N. S. --- Edward L. Doheny of Los Angeles, a passenger on the Olympic, says that a bulletin stating that all the Titanic passengers were safe, was po...
24th April 1912  
  REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT]
Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
   
New York Times (1912) BRIDE FIXING LIFEBELT ON PHILLIPS
This illustration, based on Bride's own account, appeared in the New York Times of Sunday, April 28, 1912. Bride said he fixed a lifebelt onto Phillips while the latter continued to send out wireless messages about the Titanic's distress. ...
28th April 1912  
Godalming and District News (1912) POST OFFICE MEMORIAL
At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...
4th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS
Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...
27th April 1912  
  HAROLD BRIDE IN THE WIRELESS ROOM
Harold Bride photographed by Fr Francis Browne in  the Wireless Room of the Titanic.  The ghosted image being due to a double exposure....
   
New York Times (1912) LORD PIRRIE NOT RETIRING
Report That He is Quitting Harland & Wolff is Denied --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, March 14---I am authorized to state that there is absolutely no truth in the statements...
15th March 1912  
New York Times (1912) RACE MEETING AT AUTEUIL
*** By Marconi Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times *** PARIS, Feb. 17---*** Mrs. Brandeis Cohn, Loyal B. Cohn, Walter H. Cohn and Emil Brandeis, who had been in Switzerland for the last six months, have arrived in Paris...
18th February 1912  
New York Times (1912) LORD PIRRIE OPERATED UPON
Belfast Shipbuilder Has Recovered from the Immediate Effects --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Feb. 22---Lord Pirrie, head of the Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff...
23rd February 1912  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN TO MEET KAISER
Report That Settlement of Italian-Turkish War Will Be Discussed --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, April 5---According to a dispatch from Modena, sent out by the Ex...
6th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) SAY THEY HAVE "MONA LISA"
Two Men Go to Rome to See J. P. Morgan About It --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 11---A newspaper whose artistic news is generally reliable says that two men le...
12th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) FINDS TEMPLE FOR MORGAN
Prof. Leithgow Has Unearthed Huge Edifice in Egypt --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, March 22---J. Pierpont Morgan is delighted with his visit to Egypt and much plea...
23rd March 1912  
  (2004) MARCONIGRAM FROM SS BALTIC
The MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COMPANY, Ltd. Office of origin: S.S. Baltic 14 Apr 1912 Office sent to: MGY ...
23rd July 2004  
New York Times (1912) ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS
Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in...
15th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) MR. MORGAN ANNOYED
Resents Intimation That He Would Deal with "Mona Lisa" Thieves --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- FLORENCE, April 12---J. Pierpont Morgan is much annoyed over the ...
13th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) $100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY
Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h...
14th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) MARCONI CHEERED FOR WIRELESS FEATS
Modestly Gives Credit to Other Inventors and Speaks of Life Saving from Titanic --- FIRST LECTURE IN AMERICA --- Prof. Pupin Childes Speaker for Praising Other Inventors for Discoveries That Were Only by Marconi ...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) TITANIC TESTS HER SPEED
Then She Sails for Southampton to Prepare for Maiden Voyage by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times LONDON, April 2.—The White Star liner Titanic, which has just been completed by Ha...
3rd April 1912  
New York Times (1912) POMPEII CHARMS MR. MORGAN
He Is Especially Captivated by the Frescoes in New Excavations --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- NAPLES, March 17---When J. Pierpont Morgan went to Pompeii Friday he was a...
18th March 1912  
New York Times (1912) J. P. MORGAN IN ROME
Arrives There from Naples with His Sister, Mrs. Burns --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, March 16---J. P. Morgan and his sister, Mrs. Burns, arrived from Naples this...
17th March 1912  
New York Times (1913) KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR
Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La...
12th July 1913  
  WIRELESS OPERATOR'S ROOM
Computer Generated 360 degree View of the wireless operator's room abourd the Titanic. Requires the IPIX plugin. ...
   
New York Times (1912) COMFORT FOR OSCAR STRAUS
Messages of Sympathy from Every Part of the World --- Oscar S. Straus has been deeply touched by the scores of cablegrams, telegrams, and letters which he has received, each bearing its message of sympathy and paying warm tribute to the...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN VISION OF ART
Wants America to Have Institution an Janiculum, in Rome --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 3---J. Pierpont Morgan spent the whole morning on the top of Janiculum, t...
4th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MILLET MEMENTOS IN ROME
Friends Find a Pathetic Interest in Visiting the Future Academy --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 27---A visit to the Villa Aurelia on the top of the Janiculum, wh...
28th April 1912  
The Times (1984) HAROLD COTTAM
Wireless operator in rescue of Titanic survivors page 18 Mr Harold Cottam, who died yesterday in Nottingham at the age of 93, was the wireless operator on he Carpathia on the night of April 12 (sic) 1912, when the Titani...
31st May 1984  
New York Times (1906) WIRELESS JOKER AT SEA
Passengers of the Baltic All Stirred Up by Fake Dispatches --- When the White Star liner Baltic, in yesterday from Liverpool, was two days out of Queenstown, some one who was characterized by the officers ...
13th January 1906  
New York Times (1912) REWARD CARPATHIA'S CREW
White Star Line Makes Gifts---Cunard to Claim No Damages --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, June 10---The White Star Line has announced that the Cunard Company has acceded to ...
11th June 1912  
New York Times (1912) AMERICANS IN ROME
Mr. And Mrs. Millet at Villa Aurelia, Which is Being Modernized --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---[Three paragraphs which are irrelevant for present purposes have bee...
7th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) BATHS ARE HELPING MORGAN
Aix-les-Bains Correspondent Tells of the Financier's Strenuous "Cure" --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 3---An Aix-les-Bains correspondent says: ...
4th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) AUTEUIL SOUNDS THE PANNIER'S DOOM
Smart Display of Summer Fashions at Paris Race Course Shows Radical Style Changes --- NOVEL ROBESPIERRE GOWNS --- Immense Crowd Out to See the French Grand National---Americans Less Numerous Than Usual...
24th June 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA
By the Associated Press GIVES RESCUED AS 705 Boston Man On Franconia Reports Communicating With Carpathia NEW YORK, April 17.-...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) VINCENT ASTOR'S GRIEF
Vincent Astor's Grief Pitiable ___________ Son of John Jacob offers a fortune for word of his father ___________ Vincent Astor, son of Col. John Jacob Astor, who is believed to have g...
17th April 1912  
Daily Home News (1912) HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA’S LANDING
New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MONEY LOSS NOTHING---MORGAN
But He Is Upset by Loss of Life, Due to Faith in Boat --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 21---An interesting interview was obtained by a correspondent at Aix w...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN MAY ACT AS A PEACE ENVOY
Berlin Thinks That, Unofficially, He Will Try to End the Turkish-Italian Conflict --- TO VISIT CONSTANTINOPLE --- After Seeing Kaiser at Venice---Belief That Turkish Officials Will Listen to Him Respectful...
9th April 1912  
New York Times (1913) ISMAY IS TO QUIT
Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...
1st January 1913  
Surrey Advertiser and County Times (1912) THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare...
  April 1912  
examiner.com (2009) 'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE
There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Hi...
8th July 2009  
New York Times (1912) ANCESTOR OF ROTHES SAVED A PRINCESS
Bit of Ancient Family History May Have Inspired the Countess-Oarswoman. --- "GRIP FAST," SAID RESCUER --- "Gin the Buckles Bide," Replied the Princess--Coat of Arms and Motto Derived from Incident --- By Marc...
23rd April 1912  
Washington Post (1912) TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT
New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN BUSY IN ROME
Wishes the Papers Would Stop Saying He Is Ill --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---This year J. Pierpont Morgan has not had his usual luck in regard to the wea...
7th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE
The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne...
19th April 1912  
  (1912) CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER.
RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...
27th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) ACCUSE WIRELESS OPERATOR
PHILADELPHIA, April 20---Charges were made to-day by the chief electrician of the United States scout cruiser Chester, which was sent to the aid of the Carpathia, having on board the survivors of the Titanic, that the wireless operators on board the ...
21st April 1912  
ET Research (2002) EXCUSE SENDING ... AM HALF ASLEEP
At the beginning of 1912 Harold Thomas Cottam already had a wealth of experience behind him. The youngest graduate from his class at Wireless Telegraphy school, he had operated at an early age on routes as far flung as Australi...
17th March 2002  
New York Times (1912) SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM
John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra...
5th June 1912  
ET Research (2006) A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE
THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James...
13th October 2006  
Daily Telegraph (1912) RUSSIANS TO THE RESCUE – ICEFIELD DESCRIBED
SS. Birma (off Dover), Monday, April 22. We left New York in the Birma, of the Russian East Asiatic Com­pany, on Thursday afternoon, the 11th inst., bound for Rotterdam and Libau (Russia), in splendid we...
25th April 1912  
Southern Daily Echo (2002) HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC
Mrs Saunders, a widow, was walking down Bridge Street in the direction of Southampton Docks railway station. She was carrying her handbag, which contained six shillings. John Dixon was also walking in Bridge Street. He had arrive...
16th February 2002  
 

 
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