Why Was The Titanic Saved By A Radio Signal?

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Would you believe me if I said that the surviving passengers of the Titanic were saved by a radio signal? It all started with a long-distance telegraph in 1901 that was successfully broadcasted as the first transatlantic radio signal developed by Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi was born on 1874 in Bologna Italy; he received his education at the University of Bologna and was tutored at the Livorno Technical Institute. Marconi was inspired by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz’s research on generated invisible waves by electromagnetism, he developed his own wave-generating technology with the ability to send signals miles away but the Italian government wasn’t buying what he was selling. Marconi later moved to London in 1896 in hopes that London would be interested

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