titanic-confessions:On April 13th 1912, Titanic’s Marconi wireless system broke down. It’s well kn
titanic-confessions: On April 13th 1912, Titanic’s Marconi wireless system broke down. It’s well known that this resulted in a delay which led to a backlog of messages (made worse by Titanic being in range of Cape Race and having to send many messages to and from other ships). What isn’t so widely known is the fact that when the system broke down, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride completely broke Marconi rules by taking the system apart, identifying the problem and finally managing to fix the system themselves in the early hours of April 14th. If they hadn’t, there’s a good chance the emergency system’s signal may not have been strong enough to reach the Carpathia clearly (if at all) after Titanic collided with the iceberg just a few hours later. -- source link
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