One history professor whose lectures I thoroughly enjoyed in college started one semester by sharing his scale model of the Titanic. That ship, he said, represented the symbol of the greatest technological advancements in human history up to that point.
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When it launched, the Titanic wasn’t merely a ship. At the time, she was simply the largest moving object ever made. The ship’s construction pushed the boundaries of what industrial engineering could achieve in 1912.
To succeed, Harland & Wolff needed to build special tools, such as entirely new gantry systems, forge unprecedented steel slipways, and expand dry docks just to accommodate the Titanic.
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The ship required over 3 million rivets, many miles of electrical wiring, and a propulsion system that
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