If you're unfamiliar with the story of the Titanic, the infamous "unsinkable" ocean liner that, well, sank in 1912, you either really hate disaster stories, ships, or movies, or you're like Captain ...
After a violent collision in the North Sea left a tanker with a massive breach, the ship somehow stayed afloat. This explores the naval engineering behind watertight bulkheads, flooding physics, and ...
Graph illustrating the stark increase in global trade (exports and imports) in the late 1800s, with an exponential increase (dashed colored line) becoming particularly marked by circa 1980. Numbers ...