Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "The Battle of Tsushima" video.
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@charlesmichaels6648 Yes, the main salesmen were Marconi and the German Telefunken. I'll not get into the argument 'Who invented Wireless Telegraphy' , lifes to short. But Marconi took a lot of other peoples ideas and sold a Package, equipment, training, and maintinece. In civillian ships it was a leasing system, you went to Marconi's, they gave you a full set of equipment plus the operators. You paid for the system , plus' Messages at normal call rate' :-) When I were lad! There was an old guy, probably in his late 80's - He had been a Marconi Operator and swore WT was to save lives. As I lived on the coast and was always in and out of boats, as soon as he thought any of us were old enough he would teach us how to make an SOS call. I was about 9 or 10 at the time.
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