wireless

I have a question that I cant remember the answer to and Ive searched for a few mins with no luck for the answer on here. I am looking for what Hz Titanic`s wireless system operated on as in the signal output that other ships would have heard. I thought it was 50 or 60 but when I tried it in...

I have a question regarding Morse code, not sure if this is the right place..... When an English ship is in contact with a German, Italian, French, Japanese, or some other non-English speaking vessel, How do they communicate with one another via Morse??? same with the Morse lamp. Surely not...

I have a couple questions about the layout/position of Titanic's wireless shack - hopefully someone can clarify or confirm! I understand that it was aft of the bridge and near the officers' quarters. I have also read that the operators shared the officers' bathroom and dining area. Does...

I thought I would just ask these 2 questions in one thread since they are slightly related: 1. I have seen very few photos and interior exploration of the stern section. I know that it's condition is not as good as the bow, but seeing the paintings of the stern and the few photos available...

Hi everyone-- Not sure if this is the right place to put this thread, or if it's been addressed before. I've been Googling to no avail. If I'm mistaken, please excuse me. I've just gotten curious about reading the log of the messages exchanged between the Olympic and the Titanic on the...

I've finished reading "Thunderstruck" by Erik Larson (New York : Random House, 2006) that links the invention and Marconi's early development of wireless telegraphy (and squabbles over same) with the murder of Cora Crippen by her mousy looking little husband, Dr. H. H. Crippen. It was an...

It seems to me that all the controversy re Titanics position vs Californians position is irrevelant, at least as to whether or not the Californian could have/should have attempted to come to Titanics rescue when it really mattered. The important fact, I feel, is that officer Stone of the...

I am putting together a finite element model of what remains of the wireless room on Titanic as part of the NOAA monitoring efforts for the wreck, to predict remaining lifetime and see if having submersibles landing on the roof cause high stresses. I have images and video of the room (roof...

Most movies depict it sounding like beeps I have imagined it sounding like clicks or buzzes. Also in a deleted scene from Titanic the Californian operator said "listen the spark their putting out" How could he hear their spark?

Am I right in thinking that the Mount Temple Marconi operator was called John Durrant? (taken from the original copy of some British Inquiry witnesses in "Titanic Voices.") Does anybody have any information on him? It is thought that he could be a relative, before our family surname was changed...

With no way of summoning help, and with the Californian a dead duck, the people in the lifeboats would possibly have drowned, or died or exposure before any ship chanced upon them.... Any thoughts? Paul

Biggest mystery of the whole Californian episode-why didn't one of the officers just go to Evans' cabin, wake him up and put him on his set to find out what was going on? I really don't blame Captain Lord for the Californian affair, but the conduct of his junior officers just seems to scream...

I found this article in the April, 1924 White Star Magazine and hope that the experts on the board can expand a bit on this new process. It almost sounds like a sort of teletype machine "Automatic Wireless Afloat" was the caption under which one London morning paper dealt with the feat...

Hello: During the 1998 *celebrated* RMSTI (Tulloch) expedtion to TITANIC, Paul Henri Nargeolet was able to recover a component from the wireless cabin (Bear in mind this was in corraboration with Marconi/descendant, i.e. successor) revealing partial remains of it's white porcelain nature, and...

Did Jack and Harold have set times to do their job ? Did they alternate and if they did so, does anyone know of this schedule? Did they eat in the Officer's Mess with the Officers and did those who ate there have to preorder their food? If so then what happens when they've only got a half hour...

Is there one? I think there is because i have seen it. Its not the best picture, but it was kept because is was the only know picture of the wireless room. Also the reading and writing room on titanic. There is a blurry picture of that. Has anyone noticed that in the picture of the couple...

Looking at the pictures in the book on page 60, I notice long, white (wires?), running from the wall section that supports the switchboard and regulators, upward in a loop, then exiting the wall and dropping down into the remains of the Marconi room, near the spot where the operator's desk would...

Hello, A couple of weeks ago I read a post on the Olympic forum by, I thought, Brigitte Saar. It was about Olympic being in a fierce storm; she was apparently not able to use the wireless because of a malfunction with the wires or something like that. The next point was interesting; the...

Just a quick note to say that the website Inger and I have been working on, thanks to Jeff Newman, is up and running and accessible via www.nautical-papers.com Among the contents so far are new biographies on James Moody and Jack Phillips, and the "Portrush letter" which has been kindly...

Running through a list of personel effects of Kevin Cowley, Olympic's First Wireless Operator who died aboard her in June 1929, there is among the items listed 'a housewife.' Presumably this does not mean his wife or girlfriend, but some sort of object. Unless of course wives were referred to as...