The Royal Mail Stremer- Titanic.

Engineering Master piece under construction.

Titanic during her fitting out.

Although Titanic's rudder was not legally too small for a ship her size, the rudder's design was hardly state-of-the-art. According to research by BBC History: "Her stern, with its high graceful counter and long thin rudder, was an exact copy of an 18th-century sailing ship...a perfect example of the lack of technical development. Compared with the rudder design of the Cunarders, Titanic's was a fraction of the size. No account was made for advances in scale and little thought was given to how a ship, 852 feet in length, might turn in an emergency or avoid collision with an iceberg. This was Titanic's Achilles heel."

Titanic in the stocks
The Titanic was a White Star line liner, built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, designed to compete with rival company Curnard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania.


6 March 1912, Titanic (right) had to be moved out of the dry-dock so her sister Olympic, which had lost a propeller, could have it replaced. On the left Olympic is about to enter the dry-dock with the help of the tugs

RMS Titanic before departing Southampton, England. photo taken Good Friday 5 April 1912
The ship began her maiden voyage from Southamton, England, bound for New York City, New York, on Wednesday, 10 april 1912, with Captain Edward J. Smith in command.

The first-class Grand Staircase aboard the Titanic

The verandah Café aboard the Titanic.

The Café Parisien aboard the Titanic.

The first-class lounge aboard the Titanic, in the Louis XVI style.

The first-class smoking room aboard the Titanic.

Photograph of an iceberg in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic’s sinking taken on 15 April 1912 by the chief steward of the liner Prinz Adelbert.

At 11:40 PM while sailing south of the Grand Banks of Newfound land, lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald lee spotted a large iceberg directly ahead of the ship. Fleet sounded the ship's bell three times and telephoned the bridge exclaiming, "Iceberg, right ahead!" First Officer Murdoch ordered an abrupt turn to Starboard (right) and the engines to be stopped. A collision was inevitable and the iceberg brushed the ship's Starboard (right) side, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline over a length of 299ft.

Survivors aboard a collapsible lifeboat

Extract from United States Navy memorandum concerning Titanic.

The Titanic reported her location at 41° 46′ N, 50° 14′ W. The wreck was found at 41° 43′ N, 49° 56′ W.

Carpathia docked at Pier 54 in New York following the rescue.

Titanic sinks!!!

Political Cartoon from 1912: A man representing the public with a copy of a newspaper with the headline "Titanic Disaster" pounding his fist on a "Public Services" desk belonging to a man representing "The Companies"

Later on 1997 James Cameroon recreated Titanic in Celluloid. Where he himself directed, edited, produced and written this work. The Movie deals with the massiveness of titanic and an unsinkable romantic story which attracted more audience as well...

Titanic Memorial, grounds of Belfast City Hall, Northern Ireland.

The memorial to the Titanic's engineers in Southampton

Let the First be the Last...

Someone waking up in the morning with the ray of hope... hoping for something good...

Someone investing millions and millions of dollars to kill few million people...
Uranium for "Little Boy" was enriched in calutrons and by gaseous diffusion at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

In order to end the Pacific war... U.S. decided to end the war by splitting uranium and plutonium's nucleus over japan.The United States president Harry S. Truman, with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada, designed and built the first atomic bombs under what was called the Manhattan Project.
As part of Project Alberta, Commander A. Francis Birch (left) numbers the bomb while physicist Norman Ramsey watches. This is one of the rare photos where the inside of the bomb can be seen.

The "gun" assembly method. When the hollow uranium projectile was driven onto the target spike, a nuclear explosion resulted.

The complete profile of "Little Boy"


Little Boy in his pit on Tinian, before being loaded into Enola Gay's bomb bay. A section of the bomb bay door is visible on the top right.

From North Field, Tinian at 0245 hours followed by two observation b-29...Little boy with 60kg of uranium-235 was thrown away from a B-29 Enola Gay at 0815 hours local, over Hiroshima from 31,600 ft; he exploded 57 seconds later. He was Detonated at an height about 1900ft. Due to crosswind, he missed the aiming point, the Aioi Bridge, by almost 800 feet and detonated directly over Shima Surgical Clinic.

Few minutes passed 8:15...
Huge mushroom cloud... Heat waves... Hazardous Radiation... Dust... People burnt alive... Screams...
An ultimate feast for fire...


Seizo Yamada's ground level photo taken from approximately 7 km northeast of Hiroshima.


Infrastructure damage was estimated at 90 percent of Hiroshima's buildings being either damaged or completely destroyed.

Hiroshima, in the aftermath of the bombing

The radius of total destruction was about 1.6 km (1 mile), with resulting fires across 11.4 km² (4.4 square miles).

The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima.

The energy released by the bomb was powerful enough to burn through clothing. The dark portions of the garments this victim wore at the time of the blast were emblazoned on to the flesh as scars, while skin underneath the lighter parts (which absorb less energy) was not damaged as badly


Photo of a deadly burnt victim taken in Hiroshima on August 7th, 1945.


Kengo's Watch.
Kengo Futagawa, a 59 year old man was crossing the kannon bridge ( lies 1600 m from the Hypocenter) by his bicycle on his way to do fire prevention work. He jumped into the river, terribly burnt. He returned home, but died on August 22, 1945.


A few weeks after the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, grass started growing again and flowers blossomed, giving some hope to the survivors of Hiroshima that the city could be inhabited again.

Citizens of Hiroshima walk by the Hiroshima peace memorial, the closest building to have survived the city's atomic bombing.

The ruins of Hiroshima smolder one day after the atomic bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped Aug. 6, 1945. The skeletal remains of a domed building, center, now called the Atomic Bomb Dome, have been preserved as a memorial

Henry Ford.

Ford was born july 30, 1863, on a farm next to a rural town west of Detroit, Michigan (this area is now part of Dearborn, Michigan). His father, William Ford(1826–1905), was born in Country Cork, Ireland.

Ford's First vehicle : 1896 Ford Quadricycle W.Henry Ford seated
In 1896, Ford attended a meeting of Edison executives, where he was introduced to Thomas Edison. Edison approved of Ford's automobile experimentation; encouraged by Edison's approval, Ford designed and built a second vehicle, which was completed in 1898.

Ford (standing) launched Barney Oldfield's career in 1902.

With the help of C.Harold Wills, Ford designed, built, and successfully raced a twenty six horsepower automobile in October 1901. With this success, Murphy and other stockholders in the Detroit Automobile Company formed the Henry Ford Company on November 30, 1901, with Ford as chief engineer. However, Murphy brought in Henry. M. Leland as a consultant. As a result, Ford left the company bearing his name in 1902. With Ford gone, Murphy renamed the company the Cadillac Automobile Company.Ford also produced the 80+ horsepower racer "999", and getting Barney Oldfield to drive it to victory in October 1902.

Henry Ford shocked the automotive world 60 years ago by doing the impossible : Mass-producing the V-8 engine. Here he is shown with his first "production" engine which is now displayed in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn MI. A brass tag on the first engine reads: "This is V-8 No. 1 motor. Hold for Mr. H. Ford."

This unusual camera shot shows Henry Ford (right) and Edsel Ford with their newest product, the Ford V-8 for 1937. The picture was taken at Dearborn during the newspapermen’s preview of the new car, which excited unusual interest because of its completely new appearance and the advent of the 60 horsepower V-8 engine, giving a choice of engine sizes.

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
- Henry Ford.
When Ford started the 40-hour work week and a minimum wage he was criticized by other industrialists and by Wall Street. He proved, however, that paying people more would enable Ford workers to afford the cars they were producing and be good for the economy.

Automobiles displayed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Replica of shop where Henry Ford built his first automobile, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich.


Ford Assembly Line, 1913

Henry Ford recieved the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, presented by Karl Kapp, German consul-general of Cleveland (left), and Fritz Hailer, German consul of Detroit (right).

Orv & Henry Ford at Hawthorne Hill

Henry Ford with Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone. Ft. Myers, Florida, February 11, 1929.

Edsel Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Henry Ford pose in the Ford hangar during Lindbergh's August 1927 visit.

Ford's most successful aircraft was the Ford 4AT Trimotor — called the “Tin Goose” because of its corrugated metal construction. It used a new alloy called Alclad that combined the corrosion resistance of aluminum with the strength of Duralumin.

Ford's Ford...
A 1942 model, Mr. Ford had this car updated with many interchangeable 1946 ford parts, including 1946 front end sheet metal.


Ford's Ford's Dash.
This was the last of Henry Ford's personal cars and he used it up to his very last day, April 7, 1947. The leather upholstery and two-way radio indicate how much Henry Ford depended on this car to get about his empire and to maintain communications.

78-year old Henry Ford at the Wheat Harvest in Tecumseh, 1941.

Henry Ford with his wife and grandson (Henry Ford II). Henry Ford sits at the tiller of the first car he made, in 1896 when he was 33.

In ill health, he ceded the presidency to his grandson Henry Ford II in September 1945 and went into retirement. He died in 1947 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 83 in Fair Lane, his Dearborn estate, and he is buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.
He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers.