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Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
Michael Bosworth & Katherine Bosworth Eds.
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Description for Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
hardcover. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, this book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this legendary story as it was first heard. Editor(s): Hughes, Michael; Bosworth, Katherine. Num Pages: 192 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSAN; 3JJC; HBLW; HBTM; TJK; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 182 x 21. Weight in Grams: 604.
Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, this book tells the story of the Titanic from a new angle: the role of wireless in the disaster. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, the book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this well-known story from a different perspective. The narrative begins with warnings of ice, including one sent from the S.S. Californian, the closest ship to the Titanic, just hours before the fatal collision. It follows Jack Phillips, the ... Read more
Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, this book tells the story of the Titanic from a new angle: the role of wireless in the disaster. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, the book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this well-known story from a different perspective. The narrative begins with warnings of ice, including one sent from the S.S. Californian, the closest ship to the Titanic, just hours before the fatal collision. It follows Jack Phillips, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
BODLEIAN LIB
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851243778
SKU
9781851243778
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99-1
About Michael Bosworth & Katherine Bosworth Eds.
Michael Hughes is Senior Archivist at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, where he catalogued the Marconi Archives. Katherine Bosworth works at Bernard Quaritch Ltd where she specialises in archives.
Reviews for Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
'This book provides an excellent secondary resource for scholars of early wireless communications and will be of great interest to Titanic enthusiasts on this recent centenary of its sinking.
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'Informative and quite beautiful.'
London Review of Books
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'Informative and quite beautiful.'
London Review of Books