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    1913 – via Internet Archive. The Marconi Press Agency Ltd (1914). The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony. London: The Marconi Press Agency...
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    SS Dwinsk (category Ships built by Harland and Wolff)
    of Dwinsk's boats and rescued their occupants. Four more boats were found and their occupants rescued. One boat, commanded by the boatswain's mate, was...
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    The Patchwork Girl of Oz (category American fantasy novels adapted into films)
    illustrations by John R. Neill. In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his Oz Film Manufacturing Company. The book was followed by Tik-Tok of Oz (1914). In...
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    successively by four captains before being finally put under the command of Stanley Lord. Between late 1911 and early 1912, Californian had a Marconi wireless apparatus...
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    "His Signals Ignored by Collier, Lost Liner's Captain Testifies; 964 are Dead; Total Rescued 403". The New York Times. 31 May 1914. p. 1. Norway Heritage...
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    that they had rescued Titanic survivors, and Birma offered supplies. The response from Carpathia was "shut up". This was attributed by Cannon to be part...
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    similarly modified. Also by 1911, Corcovado was equipped with wireless telegraphy and submarine signalling. By 1913 her wireless call sign was DRC. In October...
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    Titanic (category Ships built by Harland and Wolff)
    use of the Marconi wireless system did not achieve the result of bringing a rescue ship to Titanic before it sank, the use of wireless did bring Carpathia...
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    RMS Carpathia (category Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I)
    crew rescued 705 survivors from the ship's lifeboats. The Carpathia was sunk during World War I on 17 July 1918 after being torpedoed three times by the...
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    RMS Olympic (category Ships built by Harland and Wolff)
    Bay Press. ISBN 1571451609. The Marconi Press Agency Ltd (1914). The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony. London: The Marconi Press Agency...
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    British ultimatum to Germany in August 1914, they cut the German cables. German messages could be passed only by wireless, using cyphers to disguise their content...
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    difficult for Frankfurt's wireless operator to hear and understand Titanic's calls. According to some reports the Frankfurt's wireless signal strength indicate...
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    RMS Niagara (category Ships sunk by mines)
    Past. "Rescued from launch". The New Zealand Herald. 1 March 1928. p. 12. Retrieved 19 December 2020 – via Papers Past. "Launch party rescued". The New...
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    in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role. The battle was described by contemporary Sir George Clarke as "by far the greatest...
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  • Building and wireless telegraph station. The rejected suitor turns traitor and Beatrice is captured by the enemy. However she is rescued by plane with the...
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    is best known as the captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912 in the middle...
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    included artefacts, film footage and diaries from the 1914 expedition, as well as a chronological display of more than 150 photographs taken by Frank Hurley...
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    Lottie Pickford (category Canadian film actresses)
    elder sister, Pickford's first starring role came in 1914 in The House of Bondage. It was a vice film, with Pickford playing a prostitute, in stark contrast...
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    The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south...
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    Battle of Cocos (category Conflicts in 1914)
    reached the islands and sent a party ashore at around 06:00 to disable the wireless and cable transmission station on Direction Island. The station was able...
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    Sinking of the Titanic (category Ships sunk by icebergs)
    forward compartments flooded, and the crew used distress flares and radio (wireless) messages to attract help as the passengers were put into lifeboats. In...
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    SS Falaba (category Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I)
    Wenlock, rescued survivors, and towed the lifeboats to safety. Eight people, including Captain Davis, died of hypothermia after being rescued. Survivors...
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    Marie Walcamp (category American film actresses)
    Geisha (1914) A Mexican Spy in America (1914) Rescued by Wireless (1914) A Romance of Hawaii (1914) The Silent Peril (1914) The Trial Breakers (1914) The...
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    1914 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1914: The German Empire...
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    killed, including two who died of their wounds after being rescued. The destroyer Hotspur rescued 337 survivors, including Vice-Admiral Henry Pridham-Wippell...
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  • produced by Kalem Co., first ever film adaptation of the 1820 short story by Washington Irving Long Distance Wireless Photography, directed by Georges...
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    1914 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in January 1914: British governor...
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  • The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Paramount Pictures and released between 1912 and 1919. Paramount...
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  • Experiments by Jagadish Chandra Bose 1895 – Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant 1895 – Popov's Contribution to the Development of Wireless Communication...
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    1914 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in September 1914: Due to war...
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