A few days after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, a cheering crowd gathered in New York City to hail the man credited as the savior of the ship's survivors. That man, Guglielmo Marconi, was already ...

The wireless technology that saved hundreds from the shipwreck was in its infancy, and competing distress signals didn’t help. Initially developed in the late 1800s, the Marconi telegraph used long ...

The news that a judge has allowed a Titanic search party to cut open a small passageway into the ship to rescue the famed Marconi device that signaled its final SOS could solve some enduring mysteries ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is among the organizations that oppose the ruling. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On Monday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith ...

"Come at once. We have struck a berg." The Titanic's radio engineers sent this emergency message and many like it in Morse code wirelessly to anyone listening. Two employees of Marconi, the company ...