What really sank the Titanic
by
Mike Inger Helmke
Being
too busy sending messages to your friends is nothing new. Passengers of the
Titanic already did that a hundred years ago. They left their messages with the
ship's radio operator Jack Phillipps who would send them to Cape
Race, Newfoundland, where they were forwarded. Not unlike typing our
modern text messages with one finger on our smart phone, they were typed in Morse codeand sent by the latest the state of the art wireless
telegraph that had finally made it possible to get a message from a ship across
the ocean. And that's what sank the ship...
