Saturday, April 14, 2012

The Titanic: High Tech Marvel-- Part 1

From the April 13th Computerworld"Titanic was high-tech marvel of its time"

The Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage with 2,228 passengers and crew from Southampton, England on April 10, 1912. Late at night, April 14th (today) it struck and iceberg and sank early the next day.

It was the most advanced ship of her time.

On board was a 30 by 40 foot control panel that controlled the ship's fans, generators, electricity and many other things. Today, a simple desktop computer could do this, but this was real high tech back then.

The ship had four elevators and some of the first-class cabins even had in-room telephones, although they couldn't call ship-to-shore.

More to Come. --DaCoot

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