When Titanic‘s keel was laid down in 1909, commercial radio was in its infancy. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, popularly known as the Marconi Company after its founder, Guglielmo ...

The CQD call was heard by a Newfoundland telegraph ... the wireless radio operator of the SS Californian, a merchant vessel about 10 miles away from the Titanic, had gone to bed, so the sinking ...