Marconi's Wireless Telegraph
The Irish-Italian wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi had been the first to see the advantages—and the commercial possibilities—of equipping ships with wireless telegraph equipment. Marconi sold his earliest systems to lighthouses and ships, which could not access the cable network and yet had most need of rapid communication. By the time of Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912, most passenger ships operating in the north Atlantic had a Marconi installation staffed by Marconi Company operators.
