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Microscopic Analysis of Metal Recovered from the Wreck of RMS Titanic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

J.J. Hooper McCarty  and
T. Foecke
J.J. Hooper McCarty
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
T. Foecke*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Metallurgy Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
*
tfoecke@nist.gov

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On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic, approximately 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland. Despite her double-bottom construction and series of water-tight compartments, the luxurious passenger liner, deemed ‘unsinkable’ by the popular press, sank in only two hours and 40 minutes, taking 1523 lives with her. As the largest man-made moving object of her time, the construction of the RMS Titanic was a technological feat, yet her sinking comprised one of the most famous disasters of the twentieth century. A colossal tragedy, the sinking has been shrouded in mystery ever since, and has led to unending speculation concerning the details of that fateful evening.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , March 2007 , pp. 6 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2007

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