JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 291
In another unlikely-to-be-added-to category, Ships in the Skyline, I've found, surprisingly, a third installment. (I guess that there are many more as I've found these guys without actually looking for them, though perhaps that is the trick to finding things (that you don't need).) The comparisons that we see here for the ship The Cunarder, appeared in The Illustrated London News for 29 September 1934, and the skyline that it is favored against is London's Big Ben. Interestingly, the graphic goes on to compare the powertrain of the ship to 100 "Cock o' the North type locomotives" to generate its 200,000 horsepower; also, the amount of steel frame found in the ship (32,000 tons) is comparable to the steel framing of the brand-new Empire State Building (58,000 tons in the steel framework). Of further interest is the relief of a human set against the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square and the top of the ship's fore funnel (reaching 170'). This is just fantastic design and some good thinking about how to make the dimensions of the ship more understandable in everyday terms, and thus compares it in size and capacity to stuff that people see most every day, or at least know.
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