How Marconi Changed Shipping Forever

[@arjovenzia]

As a Ham operator, we owe alot to this man. For all the controversy, he did make it happen. The slate slab in our pocket makes it easy to video call anyone at a whim. But it's such a thrill to light up your own antenna and get a contact with another nerd 1000's of km away, with nothing but the sky connecting you. It bakes in a "we all look at the same moon" mentality

[@robertbridges517]

Tesla created the path, Marconi made it functional.

[@grahamgreene779]

Never operated a Ham radio but love the post. Happy Holidays Mike and all.

[@tatianaes3354]

@@robertbridges517Popov’s work predates Marconi’s, but due to the bureaucracy of tsarism, he has failed to commercialise it. A common story in inventions.

[@Gregm-l9r]

Merry Christmas, Mike to you and all your family . Marconi certainly made a huge difference to safety and communication at sea . A somewhat forgotten hero .

[@SeveralWeezelsInaTrenchcoat]

He isn’t forgotten in Italy, many schools and monuments are named after Marconi

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@lochlanmuir2291]

*christmas

[@lochlanmuir2291]

RIP

[@ejomatic7480]

Unfortunately he was also a fascist so I'd say it's a stretch to call him a hero.

[@ozzietadziu]

Otis Pond, an engineer then working for Tesla, said, "Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you." Tesla replied, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents." But Tesla's calm confidence was shattered in 1904, when the U.S. Patent Office suddenly and surprisingly reversed its previous decisions and gave Marconi a patent for the invention of radio. The reasons for this have never been fully explained, but the powerful financial backing for Marconi in the United States suggests one possible explanation. Tesla was embroiled in other problems at the time, but when Marconi won the Nobel Prize in 1911, Tesla was furious. He sued the Marconi Company for infringement in 1915, but was in no financial condition to litigate a case against a major corporation. It wasn't until 1943-a few months after Tesla's death- that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tesla's radio patent number 645,576. The Court had a selfish reason for doing so. The Marconi Company was suing the United States Government for use of its patents in World War I. The Court simply avoided the action by restoring the priority of Tesla's patent over Marconi.

[@MrGoesBoom]

Wish I could say any of this surprises me ( even though I didn't know any of it before reading this comment ) but I can't say it does.

[@SquishyZoran]

Is there a video of this? If not one needs to be made!

[@BNuts]

Nicola Tesla was a brilliant, troubled mind whose backers, like JP Morgan, frequently ended up cheating him because he was a poor businessman. The phrase 'being Westinghoused' also reflects Tesla's experience with the company. Tesla's wireless system used wooden towers, which had range issues. He invented many things, the ideas coming too fast to write down, but didn't have the finances to pursue them, nor the ability to adapt to trying to create on less budget. Tesla is credited with many things, including florescent lights and discovering alternating current. He should be recognized for all his contributions, despite many of his beliefs. He wasn't a bad man, by any means. More like he led a very unfortunate life. Despite that, every person should be recognized as worthy of all of their accomplishments.

[@toriamansfield2999]

Marconi was an aristocrat, it figures.

[@andrewdillon7837]

@@SquishyZoran Yep, It was on Tv back then,,

[@seamusomorain6244]

Oh boy… I was deeply, DEEPLY fixated by Marconi when I was wee, to the point I used to build tiny radio transmitters after school based on his patents (only so much you can do with spare wires and a rusty toolbox in fairness lol) Was so deeply emotional about it. He was kind of my hero (his station in Cornwall wasn’t far from where I grew up which I forgot about until this video!). Oh I’m so happy Our Friend Mike Brady is talking about this, I’m delighted, maritime and telegraphy history are my twin passions and have been since I was 10 and it is all flooding back. Yay!!

[@Archeantusable]

Santa gives us gifts once a year. But our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs keeps giving us great videos every week.

[@2nicnag2]

I’m so sad I’ve seen most of his as I love to binge listen to his videos

[@Spike-sk7ql]

One thing, Mike. Radio waves, for the most part dont bend with the earth. The frequency used back then, and the HF frequencies now, refract off of the ionosphere, and bounce back to earth over the horizon. Thats how you can talk across the world in certain atmospheric and ionospheric conditions. Now, VHF frequencies pretty much do go straight out into space. You can get a few miles over the horizon sometimes, and if you install your antenna very high, your reach will be a lot further. VHF is "line of sight" communications. Merry Christmas!

[@Rick92040]

ULF and VLF do bend with the earth. That's how the Navy sent signals to the submarines back in the day. Rick RM2

[@flyboyjoy]

MF does bend around the earth. Thats why in some instances (particularly at night), a transmission's "sky wave" will interfere with its own "ground wave" as they will have both traveled different distances by the time they reach the receiver.

[@oldgeezerproductions]

Radio waves are simply very long wavelength electromagnetic waves, much, much longer than the light waves our eyes can see. All electromagnetic waves can refract to a more or less degree and the longer the wavelength, the more they refract. For technical reasons related to the operation of the early spark gap transmitters, the radio wavelengths were 500 meters (a half a kilometer long!) and longer which means that they could and indeed DID refract following the curvature of the earth. In fact, similar long wavelengths can penetrate into the earth and more importantly, penetrate the surface of the sea so that submarines, to this day, can receive long wave broadcasts without having to surface.

[@davewilson4493]

@@oldgeezerproductions Indeed - a caving friend of mine was able to pick up BBC Radio 4 on long wave (1500m) while fairly deep underground in a cave in Spain. No other communication possible in either direction without spending hours climbing or descending many hundreds of metres of rope, but they could still listen to news, dramas, and the shipping forecast.

[@markchamberlin7990]

General statements are often disproven, there are exceptions to most rules. Sometimes the unexpected happens. All these things are more complex than can be summarized in comments to social media... (Let's not fight.) All are good comments here.

[@BrianBergCanDoIt]

Look at this here, ladies and gentleman, it's our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs!

[@giggiddy]

Yo??? Mike is classy and polished. Nothing he does starts with yo.

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

Merry Christmas, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs 🌲🎁🎅🏻🚢

[@shnorth888]

I live in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Signal Hill, in the city of St. John's is where Marconi received the first trans Atlantic wireless message. It was in one of the old hospital buildings on the hill. Signal Hill is a Parks Canada national historic site and they have a display on Marconi along with Cabot Tower and the remiains of military fortification.

[@pattik789]

Merry Christmas to all at Oceanliner Designs!

[@monsieurcommissaire1628]

This is a chilling and fascinating story. "Doctor" Crippen was a real sicko. Hats off to Marconi; the lives saved alone make his invention one of the greatest and most important of all time.

[@davidolie8392]

Kate Bush's early song "Coffee Homeground" contains the line "Pictures of Crippen, lipstick smeared". I never got the reference until now.

[@Mark3ABE]

I can remember waking up one morning, looking out of the porthole, and seeing that, during the night, another ocean liner had moored near to us. It was the Guglielmo Marconi, of the Italian Line, painted entirely in white and looking very impressive. This was in the port at Genoa, in 1967, when we were travelling on the Achille Lauro. While the Achille Lauro had been acquired by the Lauro Lines (“Flotta Lauro”) only two years earlier and had been refurbished and modernised throughout, it could not compete in elegance with the white fleet of the Italian Line - the Leonardo da Vinci, the Christoforo Columbo, etc. Naturally, the Italian Line wanted to honour Marconi, a great Italian hero. His mother, in fact, was Irish and he spoke very good English and did much of his business in Britain and the USA, where he is remembered, of course, for the “Marconi Scandal” which almost brought down the Government, but it was nothing to do with Marconi, personally, of course, but with the Attorney-General, and his brother, speculating in shares in the Marconi Company - allegedly.

[@robertskrzynski2768]

Lloyd George Prime Minister, and the then Lord Chancellor (top British Empire Judge) were amongst those who were believed to have hands in the till.

[@kittybitts567]

It's Boxing Day in Oz, but here in southern New Hampshire it's Christmas Day. Christmas is a season that doesn't end until the Sunday after Epiphany, so Merry Christmas to my friend Mike Brady who has left us all this great gift of a new video. Happy New Year my talented friend.

[@KevinRudd-w8s]

Merry Christmas Mike. Another totally absorbing video. When I was at sea as an Electrical Officer, Radio Officers were referred to by the nickname of Sparks or Sparky's ( a term that is also used here in the UK as a nickname for electricians ). Some companies still employed Marconi Radio Officers, many of the ones I sailed with came from the Irish Republic the others being mainly British, I believe Marconi may have had a training school there, the rest were mainly from the UK. At the time most radio traffic was still undertaken with the Morse key ( hence the nick names of Sparks and Sparky ) but by the late nineteen eighties things were changing rapidly, with the introduction of Single Side Band radios, automatic distress beacons, telex and fax machines and in 1990 for the first time I boarded a Ship that didn't carry a designated Radio Officer, as all that was required was for someone to hold a certificate to say they were competent to use an SSB radio. Most of the Radio Officers I sailed with were also expected to maintain the Radars and certain other navigational equipment.

[@paulsmith6184]

Great video Mike. Thanks. I was a ship's radio officer for 5 years and can relate to this story very well. Sadly these radio networks have been replaced by even more advanced technology - the satellite systems. No more radio men on ships. It was a great way for young men and women to see the world.

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

I've seen at least a dozen videos about this topic but this channel never fails to approach topics from a fresh angle that always results in a superior viewing experience.

[@jeffnapoliello]

Thanks!

[@colinleat8309]

Great video Mike. Yes we had Capital Punishment here in Canada, up until as recently as 1962. The last person was hung in the infamous Don Jail in Toronto. It's closed now and is a historic site. 🖖😁🇨🇦🍻🕊️

[@MsDscho]

Merry Christmas, Mike, and thanks for keeping us entertained. I am a Radio Ham (Amateur Radio operator) and I am pleased to finally see your take on how all this began especially the birth of communication at sea. Job well done.

[@msleatha3078]

Thank you for a very Merry Christmas, Mike!🎄🎄🎄

[@johnandrews3568]

Outstanding, as always Mike.

[@ronniepitre21]

Merry Christmas to the most Genuine & Authentic content creator out there ! Thank you Mike for all you do !

[@Denise-ki9ii]

Merry Christmas! Thank you for all that you do.

[@martinschnelle3077]

Merry Christmas to you Mike, all of your team and every viewer of Oceanliner Designs!

[@nanabutner]

Merry Christmas, Mike and all those responsible for Oceanliner Designs and followers! May God bless and protect you all!

[@jrbship]

Merry Christmas Mike and the Oceanliner Designs crew!

[@jetsons101]

This is the first time I had a Science Class on Christmas Day......... Thanks to Mike and a Merry Christmas to all.

[@user-fz9zk3v7h]

Thank you for this great presentation Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs was as always very interesting and at the same time very informative Thank you very much ♥️

[@davidberriman5903]

Thanks to our revered friend Mike for yet another wonderful presentation. I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas.

[@shannonbreen3732]

Merry Christmas to our good friend Mike Brady, the team at OceanLiner Designs, and all of your families. 🤶🎄🎁

[@AniMerci]

Merry Christmas, Mike. All the best!

[@jimmichell5059]

Really good history lesson Mike! Merry Christmas!

[@christopherbaxendale276]

Awesome factual explanation re Marconi. My father was a telegraphist on HMNZS Achilles in WW2. Merry Christmas to you and your crew.

[@roselightinstorms727]

Happy holidays to Oceanliners Designs

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

Thanks for this fascinating gift today, Mike! It's much appreciated.

[@aaroncohen9880]

Merry Christmas Mike and the team

[@ozziemederos]

Awesome video Mike well done merry Christmas

[@johnathansaegal3156]

Marconi was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, which in 1909 he shared with Professor Karl Braun. He shared the prize without any protest as both Marconi and Braun were working diligently on wireless technology at the same time. He felt it only fitting they share the award together as they would share information back and forth on each of their progress. It wasn't that they were directly working together on wireless, but a bit of cooperation between the two had been exchanged. Marconi WAS the first to get it working properly and patented, but Braun's work was also recognized by both the Nobel Foundation and both Braun and Marconi. In the acceptance speech, Marconi admitted that there were still aspects of his invention he didn't understand. "It just worked". He didn't know why. I think that we can all agree Marconi and Braun definitely deserved this award if for no other reason than making shipping journeys across the seas more safe and for all the lives that had been saved. That alone deserves top recognition.

[@enjorlas_]

thank you, our friend Mike Brady! always been an amateur Titanic nerd and love learning more about the surprisingly niche-yet-widespread impact of the Marconi machines! great work as ever.

[@Dan_KM8DAD]

Amazing to remember in the age of cellular and satellite communication that this is where it all began. The initial systems pioneered by Morse and Marconi still serve to connect millions of radio Amateurs worldwide to this day. 73 and Merry Christmas!

[@rubinthomas8586]

Merry Christmas to my friend Mike Brady. Thank you for all the well researched and well prepared episodes. 🎄

[@gravscool]

Merry christmas Mike! And to all of you boat nerds out there 🥳🎄

[@charleshaacker9568]

AAaaaaaandd once again, our Good Friend Mike Brady has caused me to tear up. That was so beautifully written, narrated, and illustrated that it will rank high in your best-of list.

[@henniekruger6602]

Merry Xmas to our frien Mike Brady🎉🎉🎉

[@Mkdkm906]

Thank you for being our friend!!

[@towgod7985]

Thoroughly enjoyed the video. Well done, cheers from Hamilton, Ontario.

[@ejhouston3554]

Merry Christmas Mike. Thanks for this wonderful Christmas gift.

[@borisromanoff4244]

Great video, Mike. A great Xmas gift of yours to all your channel viewers. Thanks!

[@MrMomo182]

There's a monument on the corner of Stuart and Cleveland St in Wahroonga, where the first wireless transmission between UK and Australia was received. PM Billy Hughes sent a message back in 1918 to Ernest Fisk, who had built a massive mast in his backyard.

[@coolmasterztv3088]

Merry Christmas to you and all your family and friends. Thanks for this lovely video you made for us.

[@sarahpersonalexcellenceguide]

@16:39 This ship showed up, then another showed up, and then ANOTHER showed up... It was so touching I actually teared up!

[@imagine4414]

Merry Christmas Mike

[@joshmoore4659]

Love your channel, Mike! Just one observation: I believe that the second “g” in “Guglielmo” is not pronounced as a hard “g”, but sounds more like “Goo-lyel-mo”.

[@patrickdunster1083]

Merry Christmas to you and yours Mr. Mike Brady, our friend.

[@philycooly6994]

Awesome video and for the holidays. Merry Christmas everyone.

[@sreed8570]

His brilliance not only culminated in the wireless transmitter, it also was evident in the way he kept control of his patent. You had to purchase a license just to have a set and the operator had to come from his company as well.

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

Hi Mike, thank you for another great video. Wishing you and your family a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, from Sydney

[@drewintampa]

MERRY CHRISTMAS MIKE! Thank you so much for creating Ocean Liner Designs. You have brought hours and hours of ship eye candy. Wishing you and your channel nothing but success. Hopefully it's warm over there! 😀

[@jayoneill1533]

Excellent episode Mike, Happy Holidays my friend.

[@MrGoesBoom]

Hello Mike Brady, it's your friend GoesBoom from the comments section. Just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and thank you for a year full of interesting and well presented content. Here's looking forward to more in the coming year.

[@Renastarsong]

Radio transmission is truly one of those things that, the more you learn about it, the more it seems like magic. We’ve harnessed what is, to simplify a bit, a lower energy version of the same stuff as light, and we use it to send our voices across huge distances. That’s insane. And it’s so normal to us now.

[@grayhatjen5924]

New Bosun reporting for duty, Friend Mike Brady 🫡 Truthfully, I've been around for quite some time. Not sure how I never managed to join. I skitter around behind the scenes and occasionally in the comments. Once upon a time, maaaany years ago, I had someone challenge me in a comment thread of a video on Phillips. I pointed out how long Phillips had been awake working the broken set, how it was against Marconi policy, and if he had not made that decision, no one would have survived. Someone official seeming asked me where I had obtained such information. I'm certain you've read the inquests backwards and forwards so you know. (I know that you have a video on the NY inquest at the very least.) It was a lovely documentary otherwise. I always try to remember that Titanic alone has SO MUCH information that we're lucky enough to know. Cheers, mate! Have an awesome Summer!

[@TheMemeDynamics]

Merry Christmas, Mike!

[@jeffrogers3175]

Great video Mike - as usual. A couple of others have mentioned about radio waves bouncing off the ionosphere - varies with frequency. Also Henry Kendall, Master of the Montrose became Master of the Empress of Ireland and was in charge when she collided with the Storstad. As marine Superintendent he managed to get a couple of the companies ships out of Europe in WW! as the Germans advanced. In fact I think the Montrose took coal from the others and towed them but I am sure somebody will tell us more about that.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Merry Christmas to you and yours Mike! And thanks for all you do!

[@MARGATEorcMAULER]

Merry Christmas to Our friend Mike! Best wishes for you and your 's in the coming New Year 🎉

[@cornwallonline]

Thanks Mike, a well researched and expertly presented documentary, with a fascinating twist!

[@julieputney4317]

A very interesting episode! Thanks Mike!

[@heidigeldean2510]

Thank you for your great videos. Merry Christmas!

[@mrtrailesafety]

Thanks for making legit content that is concise, factual, and not clickbait.

[@HandyMan657]

Merry Christmas, Mike. Fair winds to you and yours.

[@mikereinhardt4807]

Merry Christmas to all! May your days be merry and bright! Thanks Mike for all you efforts in these fine videos you present!...

[@drstevenrey]

Happy Holidays Mike. You are the rock in the waves of the internet. Amazingly, our silly smart phones today still have several small technical details that go way way back to Marconi.

[@jimalexander8734]

Thank you and merry Christmas Mr Brady

[@LBSC70]

Merry Christmas

[@mellissadalby1402]

Marconi got "his" wireless system working making use of several of Nikola Tesla's patented techniques. Tesla was quirky and Marconi had better people skills, so he became the face of the wireless and Marconi himself was more than happy to accept the credit (as he stood on Tesla's shoulders).

[@Garsty]

Merry Christmas all and thank you Mike for all the wonderful videos you and the team have brought us this year

[@whillard2447]

Merry Christmas everybody ! 🎅🏻 As a present for Mike and the whole team of Oceanliner Designs - Santa has gifted them 700k subscribers 🎉 Amazing work, people :) You deserve it !

[@bradfry5403]

Merry Christmas Mike and team that was interesting.

[@COLINJELY]

Supposedly Titanic was the first ship not to send the old CQD Signal, but the new SOS

[@SaanviWadhwa-g4d]

I have always been really interested in technologies of the past. Thanks for posting this Mike. Merry Christmas !! 🎄🎅

[@gordonpeden6234]

Merry Christmas, to you and yours. What better way to wake up on Boxing Day in the land of Oztralia to your dulcet tones, and another Oceanliner d's story. All the the best in 2025, and God bless ya' sport.

[@michaelcleary1049]

Merry Christmas Mike and the team! 🎄

[@theoccupier1652]

A video on Christmas Day ... what a treat :)

[@matteoalexander239]

Merry Christmas!🎉

[@carlalindsey9371]

Merry Christmas my friend! I wasn't even interested in oceanliners until I found your channel. Now I'm hooked!!

[@jonathanlee7355]

Great video! I know radio made wireless obsolete, but wonder what that transition was like. Maybe an idea for a future video is a detailed history of communication at sea.

[@jaynorris3722]

Mike, you just made this day so very much better. Thank you. Happy holiday

[@trainnerd3029]

Merry Christmas Oceanliner designs!!!

[@AliceStClair-t4m]

Absolutely one of my favorite storytellers! Merry Christmas!

[@AliceStClair-t4m]

Hope I didn’t offend you with the storytelling name because you have great historical info!

[@skodakatie7341]

A very interesting story, I enjoyed watching the video. Have a lovely Christmas Mike, thank you for your amazing content this year, I’m looking forward to more next year❤.

[@reneeparker7475]

As always, a fascinating look into history. I miss the days when we could send a telegraph, which was more personal than an email or text message, but less personal than a handwritten letter. But, I mark the invention of the telegraph and Marconi, as the first to connect everyone on earth. Have a Happy Christmas!!! Be safe, and be well.

[@JeffreyHinton-s7c]

A nice Christmas present from Ocean Liner Designs. Unexpected for sure. But very appreciated. Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year.

[@Electriceye1984bySam]

🎄thanks for the Christmas vid🙏🏻 Merry Christmas!

[@BillTourtillott-gv1oj]

Merry xmas mike .love your channel

[@anuraagt]

Thank you Mike, great video as always. You are super, best wishes for getting millions of subscribers!

[@deandesrosiers6857]

Simply, a well constructed story, delivered eloquently and with knowledge. (interrupted by stupid hoodie ads) thanks for the work you do, Mr. Brady.

[@Dakiraun]

What a Christmas surprise and treat for us! Merry Christmas sir to you and your team; thank you for a year of amazing videos, this one included.

[@historiclift27]

Your documentaries are incredible. Anxiously awaiting part 3 of morro castle but take your time make it great. I wish I had subscribed sooner. Great work please keep them coming!!

[@SpankyK]

Merry Christmas Mike! 🎄