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A Further Perspective
Rescue At Sea! — Now And Then
Before dawn on January 23, the outgoing White Star Line ship Republic had collided with the incoming Italian Florida near Nantucket in dense fog.
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• Jack Binns was originally slated to be the radio operator on the Titanic’s maiden voyage; and
• The captain of the Baltic during the rescue, Captain Ranson, was at the helm of the Baltic when he warned the Titanic — by radio — that icebergs had been sighted.
Not only was the Republic-Florida rescue newsworthy because it was effected with a radio distress signal, it was newsworthy in an additional way. The radio operators of various ships involved in the rescue were in contact with land operators, so the Republic-Florida rescue became the subject of multiple editions of daily newspapers, allowing readers for the first time to learn of events at sea in nearly real time.
Did a Baltic passenger take pictures at the suggestion of my grandfather? Did this passenger sell a roll of undeveloped film to a newspaper for $500? I don’t have the full answer to these questions, but I can confirm that at least one Baltic passenger took a picture of the Republic.
Cato| 9.14.10 @ 9:31AM
Marconi did not invent the "wireless".
The Supreme Court awarded Nikola Tesla that honor in 1943 because of patent infringement by Marconi.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.14.10 @ 3:02PM
I don't think the original British patent was overturned, merely the applications and claims for for further patents which could be traced to Telsa's work as well as others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
In the meantime Marconi became a facist:
On 15 June 1927, Marconi married Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali (1900–1994); Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was Marconi's best man at the wedding.[36][37] They had one daughter, Elettra (born 1930). Later in life, Marconi was an active Italian Fascist[38] and an apologist for their ideology and actions such as the attack by Italian forces in Ethiopia.
Rank and File| 9.14.10 @ 10:00AM
It seems young Abby Sunderland and the passengers of these historic vessels serve as an allegory for the coming election. Our “Republic” is also in need of a little rescue. Perhaps your subconscious was telling you and us to grab a pail and vote this unwanted bilge from our hull, lest our vessel succumb to the cold waters of an over-reaching, over-promising, and under-performing Captain.
Whether intended or not, nicely done, Mr. Thunder.