TITANIC!!!
You must have known about the biggest ship called Titanic!!!!
Here you will get more information about the;
-Designing of Titanic
-Construction of Titanic
-Modern Marvel
-The night of April 14
-Discovery of wreckage
The Titanic
Designing of Titanic
The RMS Titanic was one of three ships belonging to the Olympic-class
of White Star Line vessels. In addition to the Titanic, there was the
RMS Olympic and the RMS Britannic. Responding to growing competition,
design for the Olympic-class liners began in 1907. The decision was
made to focus on luxury and size rather than speed. Joseph Bruce
Ismay, managing director of White Star Line, wanted to build a ship
larger than any that had come before.
Construction of the Titanic.
Finding a location to begin construction of the Titanic ship
was an engineering feat itself. Harland and Wolff, shipbuilders for
White Star Line, had substantially revamped an existing shipyard to
accommodate construction of the Olympic-class liners. Construction of
the Titanic began on March 31, 1909. It took approximately three years to complete construction of the 882
foot long and 92 foot wide vessel. Work on the ship was difficult and
dangerous; eight people were killed and nearly 250 injured. The
Titanic was launched May 31, 1911 but was not fully fitted and ready
for service until spring of 1912. Displacing 52,310 tons, the RMS
Titanic was the largest passenger ship in the world.
Modern Marvel
Inspired by the technological innovations of the industrial
revolution, White Star Line wanted the Titanic to epitomize modern
technology, engineering, safety and luxury. It had a grand staircase.
The ship featured electric lights, elevators and heaters. Guests could
relax in a Turkish bath or spend their time playing tennis, swimming
or exercising in the on-board gym.
Despite its disastrous sinking, engineers had designed the
Titanic ship with safety as a top priority. The ship featured a double
steel hull and 16 separate compartments capable of being sealed off
from one another in the event of an emergency. The Titanic was also
capable of carrying 64 lifeboats. However, in a fateful decision,
White Star Line chose only to carry 16. This, combined with
collapsible lifeboats, met the requirements of an outdated law mandating
enough lifeboats for only 75 percent of the ship's passenger
capacity.
The Night of April 14 and the end of Titanic
The history of the Titanic was forever altered when the ship
struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Having received iceberg warnings
via wireless telegraph, Captain Edward Smith altered the ship's course.
However, the radio operators were more concerned with relaying private
messages to passengers than passing along updated iceberg warnings to
the bridge.
At approximately 11:40 p.m., lookouts spotted an iceberg
directly in the path of the ship. Evasive action was taken in an
attempt to avoid the collision. A sharp turn to the port side was
ordered, and the iceberg struck the ship on the right side damaging
the hull. Captain Smith ordered a full stop to assess the damage.
Initially, only five compartments were flooded, and the watertight doors
had been closed to prevent additional flooding. However, water was
able to flow over the top of bulkheads and in through normal openings
causing two more compartments to flood. It quickly became obvious the
Titanic would sink.
The Discovery of Wreckage
The history of the Titanic was forever altered when the ship
struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Having received iceberg warnings
via wireless telegraph, Captain Edward Smith altered the ship's course.
However, the radio operators were more concerned with relaying private
messages to passengers than passing along updated iceberg warnings to
the bridge.
At approximately 11:40 p.m., lookouts spotted an iceberg
directly in the path of the ship. Evasive action was taken in an
attempt to avoid the collision. A sharp turn to the port side was
ordered, and the iceberg struck the ship on the right side damaging
the hull. Captain Smith ordered a full stop to assess the damage.
Initially, only five compartments were flooded, and the watertight doors
had been closed to prevent additional flooding. However, water was
able to flow over the top of bulkheads and in through normal openings
causing two more compartments to flood. It quickly became obvious the
Titanic would sink.
People who died
CELL-O-MANIA
The mobile phone or mobile, also called a cellular phone, or cell phone is a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication that uses a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, current mobile phones can support many additional services such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations (cell sites), which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones).Nokia Corporation
is currently the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones,
with a global device market share of approximately 36% in Q1 of 2007.[4] Other mobile phone manufacturers include Apple Inc., Audiovox (now UT Starcom), Benefon, BenQ-Siemens, High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC), Fujitsu, Kyocera, LG Mobile, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Neonode, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Pantech Curitel, Philips, Research In MotionThere
are significant questions as to who first invented the camera phone, as
numerous other people received patents filed in the early 1990s for the
device, including David M. Britz of AT&T Research in March of 1994
and Phillipe Kahn, who claims to have first invented it in 1997.[citation needed] The camera phone now holds 85% of the mobile phone market[citation needed]. Mobile phones often have features beyond sending text messages and making voice calls, including Internet browsing, music (MP3) playback, memo recording, personal organizer functions, e-mail, instant messaging, built-in cameras and camcorders, ringtones, games, radio, Push-to-Talk (PTT), infrared and Bluetooth connectivity, callregisters, ability to watch streaming video or download video for later viewing, video calling and serve as a wireless modem
for a PC, and soon will also serve as a console of sorts to online
games and other high quality games (e.g. Final Fantasy Agito).
E-MAN CHARLTON COMICS!
E-Man is a fictional comic book superhero created by writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton for Charlton Comics in 1973. Though the character's original series was short-lived, the lightly humorous hero has become a cult-classic sporadically revived by various independent comics publishers.
Charlton Comics
The character premiered in E-Man #1, the first of ten issues (cover-dated Oct. 1973 - Sept. 1975) published by the Derby, Connecticut-based Charlton Comics. For the last four, artist Staton created painted covers, a comics rarity at the time.
The stories were humorous and lighthearted, in the style of Plastic Man, especially as E-Man could form himself into anything he wanted.
Backup features were Cuti and Tom Sutton's "The Knight", starring a superspy agent of C.H.E.S.S.; Joe Gill and Steve Ditko's "Liberty Belle"; two stories of writer-artist Ditko's superhero "Killjoy"; the time-traveling "Travis", by Cuti and Wayne Howard; and, in the color-comics debut of John Byrne, three stories of "Rog-2000", written by Cuti and starring a wiseacre, cigar-smoking robot Byrne had created in his fan-artist days.
A supporting character, the grubby but right-hearted detective Mike Mauser, got his own backup series in Charlton's Vengeance Squad.
An additional E-Man story, which introduced his energy-being "sister",
Vamfire, appeared in the company's in-house fan magazine, Charlton Bullseye .
In 1977, six issues were reprinted under the Modern Comics label for sale as bagged sets in discount department stores such as North America.
