The author is scott wooley. Mr. Wooley, looking back a hundred years ago, what was considered high tech then . Guest the wireless age has been around for about a decade and a half but there was only one app which was texting. There was before am radio as we know it now there was the wireless telegraph. By 1960 it had been around but struggled to make itself proven as a Real Wireless technology with the exception of the sinking of the titanic in 1912 so just over a hundred years ago. That is what brought Wireless Technology to the public conscious and made people consciousness and realize this is an important technology. Host what did the sinking of the titanic have to do with the Technology Development . Guest there were a hundred Wireless Technologies companies that spread up but the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was the dominant wireless company. Even it not been successful. It tried to make a business of sending messages across the atlantic never succeeded and got long sending
Wireless technology to the public conscious consciousness, and made people realize this is a very important technology, not just a parlor. What is the sinking of the technology in 1912 have to do with Wireless Technology and its development . Scott it helps save the Marconi Company. There were 100 Wireless Technology companies that sprang up. The marconi wireless telegraph , wasny, 100 years ago through the dominant wireless company. Even it had not been successful. They tried to make a business of sending messages across the atlantic. They never succeeded, and have gone along by sending essentially little Text Messages to and from the various shirts ships across the ocean. There were two marconi operators on the titanic. They were able to send a message. It really changed wireless in the public consciousness from this tool to this critically important part of maritime safety. Who was marconi, and where was he on the data titanic sank . Scott you have been booked to travel of the titan
About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
Feats that are now a comic symbols of new york city. This event was hosted by the new york public library, and last about 90 minutes. Thank you, lois. I want to thank the library for organizing this event. Can you guys hear me in the back . Can you hear me now . No . Yes . I will speak loudly. It is great to be in the city, lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Luddite, im im a just a technological idiot. Not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Cute, itrying to be too took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an
Lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Its not that im a luddite, im just a technological idiot. This is not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Without trying to be too cute, i took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an untold story, actually. It has been told in bits and pieces. But it has never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. That sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. It was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skies group are above 42nd s