On this episode of Our American Stories in April of a ship that previously mattered very little to Guglielmo Marconi pulled up to a crowd of thousands in New York Harbor It was the Carpathia the ship that rescued over survivors from the ill-fated Titanic in large measure due to his invention--the wireless telegraph Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories on April th New York Harbor was packed with reporters onlookers and family members of those who had been on the RMS Titanic who didn't know whether or not their loved ones had made it All of them were waiting on the Carpathia a ship that had mattered very little up to this point At the front of the crowd was Guglielmo Marconi the inventor of radio and founder of the Marconi Company On board was his surviving wireless operator-Harold Bride William Hazelgrove author of One Hundred and Sixty Minutes The Race to [... more]

ldquo Come at once We have struck a berg rdquo Those were the first words Harold Cottam the wireless operator on the RMS Carpathia received from the sinking RMS Titanic at a m on April The Carpathia would be the first ship to the disaster scene saving lives nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp In the US Senate hearings days later the Carpathia rsquo s captain Arthur Rostron testified ldquo The whole thing was absolutely providential The wireless operator was in his cabin at the time not on official business [... more]