The wireless radio invention

“This is SS Titanic, come at once, we have stroke an iceberg”. That was the message sent by two radio operators from the famous ship. This message could not have been sent without the invention of a shy child from Italy.

A very cold night of November, 1912, two men trained by this inventor sent a message using electromagnetic waves through the air. Certainly, many people would have died without that technology. That message was sent over and over again till it was received by Carpathia, the nearest ship on the Atlantic Ocean.

Young Guglielmo didn’t like school or playing with his friends. He used to spend a lot of time in his bedroom taking machines to pieces. He also liked setting up experiments, and he was particularly interested in Electromagnetic waves. The idea of conveying signals through these waves was his entertainment and passion. In his first experiment he was able to transport electricity along the electromagnetic waves to making sound an electric bell. When he showed his experiment to his father, he couldn’t believe what his son just made. He started searching wires in the bedroom, but he couldn’t find any. His unusual son, somehow, could manage a wireless system. Mr Marconi was amazed and very proud of his son.

In the next years, Marconi was looking for support to his experiment. He wrote plenty of letters to the government in his country, but they never wrote back. So, he travelled to England where he found people interested in his brand new invention. His first transmission was a signal sent from France to England through the English Channel. Then, he was ready for the biggest challenge of them all, the Atlantic Ocean. He succeeded too. He carried on experimenting and his invention was installed on the ships at that time.

So, in 1912, the Carphethia’s captain received the signal from the Titanic and sailed as fast as he could towards the ship in peril. That night 711 people were rescued thanks to the wireless communication; 711 souls saved by those desperate wireless signals from that ship and we have to thanks Guglielmo Marconi, that unusual boy from Italy.