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]