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  (1915) PARSONS STEAM TURBINE INVENTOR
Sir C. A. Parsons is one of the main inventors of the 'Parsons Steam Turbine' which could be found on the Lusitania, the Mauretania, the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic, for instance...
  1915  
ET Research (2007) TITANIC'S PRIME MOVER - AN EXAMINATION OF PROPULSION AND POWER
9th July 2007  
  THE LAURENTIC/MEGANTIC EXPERIMENT
The Olympic-class liners were fitted with two triple expansion engines, which powered the port and starboard propellers, and a low-pressure turbine, which powered the center propeller. This propulsion system was first tested on the White Star sister...
   
New York Times (1907) 30-KNOT LINER PROBABLE
Statement of the Managing Director of Harland & Wolff --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Aug. 22---According to New York reports published here, Lord Pirrie, head of the firm of...
23rd August 1907  
New York Times (1910) BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...
10th July 1910  
ET Research (2001) AN 'OLYMPIC' CLASS PROPULSION SYSTEM
The decision to incorporate a Parsons low-pressure turbine in the new vessels of the ‘Olympic’ class, was a departure for the White Star Line from the conventional system of two piston-based reciprocating engines driving twin propeller...
25th June 2001  
ET Research (2007) SPEED AND REVOLUTIONS
"We were working out a slip table, and we had not quite finished when she went down. All of us were on, working out a slip table, how many turns of the engine it would require to do so many knots; and all this, and it tapered down." - Titanic's 5t...
18th September 2007  
guardian.co.uk (2009) SINKING OF THE TITANIC: THE WATERY SOUND MEDITATION RETURNS
Gavin Bryars's piece of 'conceptual art' music has been performed in a swimming pool and water tower by child violinists and an experimental DJ. It now comes to the Roundhouse Comments (1)The Sinking of the Titanic, whose latest incarnat...
11th May 2009  
  (2005) EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC
Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec...
8th December 2005  
ET Research (2008) THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC’S CENTRAL PROPELLER
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5th May 2008  
New York Times (1907) WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC
Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem...
8th January 1907  
ET Research (2003) OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME
Move over Alnwick and Haltwhistle — another location in Northeast England holds artifacts from RMS Olympic, sister-ship of the ill-fated RMS Titanic. While many ocean-liner enthusiasts know about the Olympic fittings at the White ...
22nd January 2003  
ET Research (2005) TITANIC’S CARGO GEAR
Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic’s cargo gear. Chronologically she came d...
11th January 2005  
 

 
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