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

On this episode of Our American Stories, William Hazelgrove, author of One Hundred and Sixty Minutes: The Race to Save the RMS Titanic tells the story of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio and founder of the Marconi Company, as well as his surviving wireless operator-Harold Bride and how both men and their technology helped save over 700 people. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.