Check out this early infographic of the R.M.S Titanic. The Denver Post ran it originally on April 17, 1912 — long before the Age of the Infographic. I’m amazed at how similar it is to something we might see today.
It illustrates the force of the iceberg that struck the cruise ship — 13,500 tons is equivalent to the impact of 37 express trains.
Jeremy, Nice find.
[…] – often to help people put the scale of the ship into context. One of my favorites is this simple 1912 rendition of the ship hitting the iceberg in relation to a train of the same […]