A huge reason aid didn’t come to the sinking Titanic in time was the ongoing change in technology. The Titanic was outfitted with Marconi wireless equipment with staff to send messages (mostly social messages) in Morse code to those on land. However, other ships in the area were still signaling with lamps or had staff [...]
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