St Nicholas [serial] . me respects themost dramatic of all events on the ocean and themost wonderful of all accomplishments of sciencewas the saving of the lives of some fifteen hun-dred passengers on the Republic of the WhiteStar Line by wireless telegraphy. The boat wasabout forty-five miles from Nantucket, on herway to Naples, last January. Early in the morn-ing she was struck by another boat, the Florida. This accident was chiefly due to a heavy steel stem of the Florida smashed throughsteel plates on the side of the Republic as if theyhad been made of cardboard. Both the shipswere
St Nicholas [serial] . me respects themost dramatic of all events on the ocean and themost wonderful of all accomplishments of sciencewas the saving of the lives of some fifteen hun-dred passengers on the Republic of the WhiteStar Line by wireless telegraphy. The boat wasabout forty-five miles from Nantucket, on herway to Naples, last January. Early in the morn-ing she was struck by another boat, the Florida. This accident was chiefly due to a heavy steel stem of the Florida smashed throughsteel plates on the side of the Republic as if theyhad been made of cardboard. Both the shipswere badly damaged and hopelessly groping in thefog. But Jack Binns, the wireless telegraph oper-ator of the injured steamship, Republic, faith-fully stood at his post and sent off messages forhelp. These electrical waves went in every direc-tion. Soon came the answer, through the unseenelectric waves in the fog, that boats were on theway to rescue. Some of these came from many 270 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Jan.,. A WIRELESS TELEGRAPH OUTFIT ON A by courtesy of F. M. Sainiuis. Chief Engineer Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. miles —even from eighty or one hundred miles to the assistance of a sinking ship. Almost two away. Thus 1909 saw for the first time boatscalled from beyond sight or hearing, without wiresor any other old-time method of communication,
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