The First Real Time Tragedy: The Sinking of the RMS Titanic

On this episode of Our American Stories, in April of 1912, a ship that previously mattered very little to Guglielmo Marconi pulled up to a crowd of thousands in New York Harbor. It was the Carpathia, the ship that rescued over 700 survivors from the ill-fated Titanic, in large measure due to his invention--the wireless telegraph. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.