Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning
Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning
You’re confusing design/technical failure with failure in the broader, catastrophic sense. It was an ‘unsinkable ship’ that sank. As Picard said, it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.
If you read the article you’ll see that the exhibition is about failure in all its guises.
Possibly. It was never said to be unsinkable, that was a myth. Certainly any ship can be sunk by poor seamanship or adverse circumstances.
As with much of titanic lore, the myth of it being a myth is… a myth. Harland & Wolff publicity claimed it to be so, and this then made its way into the pages of the trade journal The Shipbuilder in 1911.
However, many historians including the Maritime Museum at Greenwich have fallen for the myth about the myth, so that’s some comfort.