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Friday, April 13, 2012

Titanic the high tech wonder of its time

When the RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, she far surpassed any other passenger ship in terms of technology, size and luxury.

The iconic British liner that sunk in the Atlantic five days later, on April 15, was considered state-of-the-art at the time, catching the attention of the world.

Features that were considered high tech in 1912 included a 40-foot-long electrical control panel that controlled the fans, generators and lighting on the ship, a master-and-slave setup for all of the clocks onboard that changed with different time zones, elevators, and telephones in first class.

The one feature that was considered the most advanced technology on the Titanic was its wireless communications setup for Morse Code, considered the most advanced at the time.

"They had the very best, the very latest in wireless equipment," said Joseph Vadus, IEEE Life Fellow and lead of the expedition that found the Titanic in 1985, to Computerworld. "There were only two wireless operators onboard, both young men. They were the computer geeks of the day. These guys ate, slept and breathed wireless. Think of computer nerds sitting in the basement in their underwear surfing the Internet. These were those kinds of guys. They were good at what they did, but it was still slow."

- Computerworld

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