Arthur Ernest Moore (29 April 1887 – 20 January 1949) was a Welsh wireless pioneer who heard the distress signal from RMS Titanic on his home-made equipment before news of the disaster reached Britain.
[4] At some point prior to 1909, most likely in his early teenage years, using a hand-made lathe driven by the waterwheel at the mill, Moore built a working model of a horizontal steam engine.
[3][4] Using the spark-gap transmitter technology of the time, Moore together with his friend Richard Jenkins, an electrical engineer at the local coal mine, made what was probably the first use in Wales of amateur wireless for business purposes.
[citation needed] Early on 15 April 1912, over a distance of more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km), Moore heard the distress signal in morse code from Titanic, one of the first uses of "SOS".
In summer 1912, the publicity surrounding Moore's hearing the Titanic's distress signal led the then Monmouthshire Education Committee to offer him a scholarship to the British School of Telegraphy in London.
[4] Soon after his retirement, Moore developed leukaemia; he moved to Jamaica to recuperate, but six months later returned to England, where he died in a convalescent home in Bristol on 20 January 1949.