#wireless telegraphy

[ailendolin]

This video always gets me.

The way Weather delightful. Feeling fine. Hope all- gets cuts off abruptly by the first, CQD. This is Titanic.

The way the last message gets cut off because they lost power. CQD. This is-

The way Olympic tells everyone to Stop talking because they're jamming the line and she can't talk to her sister.

The way Phillips always addresses Cottam as Old Man.

Just. The wireless messages are such an important and integral part of this moment in history and they never fail to make me emotional.

[scrapironflotilla]

Wireless operator at a forward wireless station, c1918.

[mostly-history]

Baldriz y Rodríguez Institute for the teaching of radiotelegraphy (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1940s).

[adventures-of-the-blackgang]

Hill's Cigarettes "Scientific Inventions & Discoveries" issued in 1929. #8 Guglielmo Marconi and wireless telegraphy

[tippystardust]

My Grandad in 1942

[qupritsuvwix]

Valdemar Poulsen - Wikipedia

Valdemar Poulsen - Wikipedia

[spaceintruderdetector]

The book of wireless, being a clear description of wireless telegraph sets and how to make and operate them, together with a simple explanation of how wireless works. 1915

https://archive.org/details/BookOfWireless/page/n15/mode/2up

[engineeringhistory]

December 22nd, 1933 issue of The Wireless World