How to play Titanic: Survival Game Arrows = Move The titanic is sinking! Collect enough money to bribe your way into a lifeboat. Rob the cabins and reach the upper deck before drowning. The water rises with each step—take 10 steps underwater and you’re fish food. Stop by cabins with air pockets to catch your breath! God of wonders third day.

A few days after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, a cheeringcrowd gathered in New York City to hail the man credited as thesavior of the ship's survivors. That man, Guglielmo Marconi, wasalready known worldwide as the celebrity inventor whose wirelesstechnology was able to send messages across entire oceans.Marconi didn't invent the idea of wireless technology or figureeverything out by himself.

But he earned his 'father of radio'title by making the first commercially successful technology thatcould send wireless telegrams across hundreds of miles betweencoastal stations. Two of his Marconi Companyoperators working in the Titanic's radio room — known as aMarconi Wireless room — sent out distress signals soon after theship's fateful collision with an iceberg.' You can find newspaper cartoons where Marconi is portrayed asPoseidon lifting lifeboats out of the water,' said Aaron Toscano,assistant professor of English at the University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte and author of 'Marconi's Wireless and theRhetoric of a New Technology' (Springer, 2012). 'One thingnewspaper articles said was that Marconi saved these people —they would have frozen to death if it wasn't for the wirelessmessages getting hold of another ship to come.' The crowd of both men and women gathered at the New YorkElectrical Society on April 18, 1912, began cheering andapplauding as soon as Marconi appeared in the large auditorium,according to a article on the event.

People cheered againwhen the chairman of the lecture board read a congratulatorytelegram to Marconi that praised 'the splendid work your systemhas done in saving human life in disasters on the sea'— a messagefrom fellow inventor.The man behind the technologyIt represented a stirring moment in Marconi's life. The inventorhad himself narrowly escaped disaster when he had been invited tosail on the Titanic's maiden voyage, but ended up heading to NewYork City earlier on the Lusitania.

His wife and children hadintended to follow by, but held off by chance when one child fellsick.As the son of a wealthy family (his Irish mother's fortune camefrom the Jameson Irish Whiskey company), Marconi had becomeobsessed with wireless technology early on through reading aboutthe work of scientists such as Heinrich Hertz. He eventuallydropped out of college and received his family's financialbacking to continue his own lab work.

'Marconi is really the great assembler,' Toscano toldInnovationNewsDaily. 'His genius was not as a sole inventor, buthe saw the commercial potential and pursued it.' The inventor's secret to success came from building up the ideaof wireless in the public imagination long before he had acommercially viable technology, Toscano explained. Marconiattracted newspaper attention during demonstrations leading up tohis biggest event — sending a wireless signal across the AtlanticOcean from an English power station to a kite-based antenna atSt.

John's in Newfoundland, Canada on Dec. 12, 1901.That demonstration cemented Marconi's international fame. He wenton to win a Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Karl Braun in 1909and establish his Marconi Company as the provider of wirelesstelegraph services to shipping companies such as the Titanic'sWhite Star Lines. His business branding was unparalleled for histime — wireless telegrams were known as 'Marconigrams.' The magic of wirelessWireless technology represented the cutting edge of modernscience and innovation for its time — something with infinitepossibilities for the future, Toscano said.

Marconi also talkedup futuristic ideas of playing two people on different boatsplaying chess, or receiving daily newspapers wirelessly andprinting them out on the spot.The wireless system didn't work perfectly on the night theTitanic sank, according to. The ship closest to the Titanic, the Californian, neverhelped out because its radio operator went to sleep after beingtold by the Titanic's senior radio operator to 'shut up' during aflurry of transmissions on the crowded wireless channel.(One of the Titanic's Marconi Wireless operators, Harold Bride,survived the sinking. The senior operator, Jack Phillips, died inthe freezing water.)But people wanted good news when they gathered at the New YorkElectrical Society just days after the Titanic's tragedy — andthey still believed in the wondrous power of wireless technologyto change the world. Frank Sprague, a U.S.

Inventor who worked onelectric motors and railways, stood up to give praise that leftMarconi visibly moved and encouraged more cheering from thecrowd.' When tomorrow night, some 700 or 800 persons land in New York,'Sprague told Marconi, 'they can look to you as their savior.' This is part of an InnovationNewsDaily series about thecompelling aspects of various inventors' lives, personalities andinventions and the role they played in Hollywood, pop culture andthe progress of society in general. You can followSenior Writer Jeremy Hsu on Twitter@.Follow InnovationNewsDaily on Twitter @,or on.© 2012 InnovationNewsDaily.com. All rights reserved.

He had earlier shooed away the closest ships who had sent dire warnings of being “surrounded” by ice — and now he was trying to get them back.Nicknamed Jack, the 25-year-old was the RMS Titanic’s Chief Wireless Operator at the time and he was under intense pressure to find a nearby saviour — the ship was sinking fast and there were not enough lifeboats to save its 2224 passengers on board.It was 2.17am on April 15, 1912 and the British passenger liner’s side had ripped through an iceberg nearly three hours earlier. He could see the forward part of the ship flooding and knew time was of the essence.Stopped in the dark of the night in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, slowly slipping towards a watery grave, Phillips continued to shoot messages across the sea in the hope of salvation.But it was too late, there were only minutes left — and the ship lost power. She started to tilt upwards.Captain Smith entered the wireless room and relieved them of their duties. There was nothing left to do, except survive.Phillips’ fate has been largely debated by scholars for decades.

What we do know, however, is that his body was never recovered, and ever since, he’s been known as the man who tried to save the Titanic.Phillips’ story is one that has resonated throughout history but for Lyn Wilton, his has a bigger significance — the Australian recently discovered she was a relative of the fallen wireless operator on her father’s side. Crowds line the dock as Titanic leaves Southampton in 1912 Source:News Corp AustraliaHOW PHILLIPS TRIED TO SAVE THE TITANICPhillips was promoted to senior wireless operator just one month before boarding the Titanic under the Marconi company. He was sent to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland to join the White Star Line’s newest recruit on her maiden voyage. He spent his 25th birthday on board, two days before the disaster.At the time, the Titanic was a marvel — an “unsinkable” mother ship, the largest passenger ship in the world that would float seamlessly along the sea. In 1911, the Belfast Morning News published a report touting the Titanic’s new era of modern technology: watertight compartments and electronic, watertight doors.The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912 and for four days, she steamed ahead towards New York City.When Phillips stepped aboard, he was joined by a junior wireless operator by the name of Harold Bride. Together, they installed the wireless equipment that would allow communications between passengers on and off board and allow communications with other ships nearby to warn of potential dangers at sea, notably icebergs.Eventually, the pair would become the beacon that would help save at least some lives — 705 out of an estimated 2224 passengers on board.

The Titanic steams out of Southampton on April 12, 1912 Source:News Corp AustraliaOn the night of April 14, 1912, Titanic made contact with an iceberg just before midnight, at 11.40pm. Titanic had received numerous warnings from ships cautioning her of the icy conditions ahead, but she kept moving.At around 9.30pm, Phillips acknowledged a warning from the ship Mesaba reporting a large number of icebergs directly in Titanic’s path but it was never delivered to the Titanic’s bridge crew.One of the last warnings came from the ship Californian, who was closest to the Titanic at the time, who was trying to warn the ship that it was surrounded by ice. The Californian had been forced to stop its engine after it too was surrounded by bergs.“Shut up! I am busy, I am working Cape Race,” Phillips snapped back to the Californian just 40 minutes before the ship struck.Some say if more attention had been paid to these messages, the Titanic might have lived to see another day. Picture of a log from the Titanic including Jack Phillips Source:SuppliedThat night, Phillips had been working tirelessly to clear a growing backlog of passenger messages after the system had broken down the prior day, sending them via Cape Race in Newfoundland, Canada.Bride had entered the wireless room to take over Phillips’ shift just before midnight when Captain Smith entered the room and told Phillips to send out a distress signal and call for assistance. The news was grim.Both Phillips and Bride worked tirelessly to send out SOS calls following instructions from Captain Smith.

Both men carried on transmitting until Titanic lost power at 2.17am. The wireless room was flooding. She sunk just minutes later, at 2.20am.