Titanic av Anton Gill

229,-

Kjøp

<p>When <i>Titanic</i> set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. Built by the great industrial communities that made Britain the pre-eminent superpower<br>of the age, the famous ocean liner signalled the high-water mark of our nation''s manufacturing industry. A must-read for any <i>Titanic</i> enthusiast, this fascinating book tells the untold stories of the men and women who made the ''ship of dreams'' a reality: <br><br> the fearless riveters who risked deafness from hammering millions of rivets that held together the fortress-like steel hull<br> the engineers charged with the Herculean task of fitting engines to power the massive ship across the Atlantic at a speed of 23 knots<br> the electricians who installed state-of-the-art communications systems and enormous steam-driven generators, each capable of powering the equivalent of 400 modern homes<br> the highly skilled carpenters, cabinet-makers and