Communications
He was at the "leading edge" of adventure in his day and was the first person to use communications ("Marconi radio wireless") on a crossing of the Sahara desert. The supporting radio batteries alone made up a complete camel load, and now and again if they bounced around on the camel's back and the acid leaked onto its skin, it would gallop off in any direction taking days to find, and creating (even for the 1920's) an unimagined impact on regular communication schedules. Today you could
