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]

Hosted by Jane Pauley In our cover story David Pogue rides a submersible to the wreck of RMS Titanic Also John Blackstone sits down with Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir David Martin profiles a wounded Ukraine veteran who travels to the U S for a prosthetic leg Seth Doane talks with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli who had recorded a Christmas album with his children Martha Teichner examines how mass shootings are being memorialized And Allison Aubrey meets a chef and a vegetable breeder who set out to create a better-tasting squash See Privacy Policy at https art com privacy and [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories William Hazelgrove author of One Hundred and Sixty Minutes The Race to Save the RMS Titanic tells the story of Guglielmo Marconi the inventor of radio and founder of the Marconi Company as well as his surviving wireless operator-Harold Bride and how both men and their technology helped save over people Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... 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]

John Harper had no idea what was about to unfold as he and his six-year-old daughter embarked on the Titanic But one thing he knew he loved Jesus and he was passionate that others know Him too As soon as the ship hit an iceberg and water started pouring in Harper a widower put his little girl on a lifeboat and headed into the chaos to save as many people as possible As he distributed life jackets he reportedly shouted ldquo Let the women children and the unsaved into the lifeboats rdquo Until his last breath Harper shared about Jesus [... more]

Since God created us in his image it makes sense that we have the capacity to be creative too But Dr Tony Evans says there is a hidden threat in the shiny new things we build Dont miss a look at a seldom-discussed danger inherent in modern technology in this lesson [... more]

Had the wireless radio been on they would have known the Titanic was sinking Cyril Evans the radio operator of another ship had tried to relay a message to Jack Phillips the radio operator on the Titanic mdash letting him know they had encountered an ice field But Phillips was busy relaying passengers rsquo messages and rudely told Evans to be quiet So Evans reluctantly turned off his radio and went to be bed Ten minutes later the Titanic struck an iceberg Their distress signals went unanswered because no one was listening In Samuel we read that the priests of [... more]

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