She boasted the latest in propulsion and navigation technology and an innovation that had only recently available: a Marconi wireless room, used both for ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship communications.

The date is the 4th of June 1903, and the inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is about to demonstrate his new wireless system, which he claims can securely send messages over a long distance, without ...

It opened the door to a rapidly developing wireless industry. Marconi continued to refine and expand upon his inventions in the next few years, and then turned toward the business aspects of his work.

Situated on a barren and lonely headland of the coast of Galway, three miles from the town of Clifden, is the Irish station of the Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraph system. No less barren ...