[HCDX] Titanic radio message fetches $5,500

["Mike Terry" <miketerry73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friday, November 12, 2004
London

A wireless message relayed to a ship rescuing survivors from the Titanic -- 
and sent by Guglielmo Marconi, the creator of wireless radio -- was sold for
almost $5,500 yesterday at a British auction house.

The Marconigram, asking for news of the 1912 disaster, was relayed from New
York to the SS Carpathia as members of her crew plucked survivors from the
Atlantic Ocean. Transcribed in pencil, a Marconigram was transmitted by a
wireless designed by the man known as the father of radio.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041112/WORLD12-5/TPInternational/TopStories



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