“Purifying the Upper Atmosphere”: Women’s Work in Early Radio, 1905-1913 by Anne Gessler

“…The essay explores the political, economic, and cultural events that transformed radio from a potentially transgressive space to an industry that instead reinforced gender and class hierarchies: the RMS Republic-Florida disaster in 1909; the formation of the wireless division of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America in 1910; the American Marconi Company’s takeover of the United Wireless Company in 1912; and finally, the RMS Titanic disaster in 1912 and the subsequent passing of the Radio Act of 1912. …”
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Evacuation of ships: Discovering the mishaps behind the casualties by Antonios Andreadakis, Dimitrios Dalaklis

“…At the beginning of the previous century, the tragic event of RMS Titanic sinking, can be considered as the triggering event for the introduction of the main regulatory intervention by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in terms of safety: The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). …”
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Large-area visually augmented navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles by Eustice, Ryan M

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