Great Eastern

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One of the first ships capable of crossing the Atlantic, the Great Eastern, had many safety features designed into her structure. Built in 1859, she was by far the largest ship ever built at that time. On one of her voyages she hit a rock that made a hole in the hull thought to be 60 times the area of the one in the Titanic. Yet her internal bulkheads were so extensive and strong that she hardly even listed. 

Over the years the builders of transatlantic ships found many of the safety features present on the Great Eastern to be onerous. For example, bulkheads running the height of the ship prevented the creation of large rooms, such as dance halls, and they also restricted the movements of waiters and passengers. So, gradually, year-by-year these safety measures were reduced. Had the bulkheads been taller in the Titanic, the sea water would not have flowed from one compartment to another and the ship would not have sunk. 

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Brunei s propensity to project himself into extreme situations inevitably courted disaster. His broad gauge was marginalised, the atmospheric railway abandoned and his underpowered locomotive designs were replaced. His most famous reversal was the Great Eastern the leviathan steam ship intended to ply between England and India was simply a precocious folly. The energy balance just did not add up for its projected mission down to India along a coal-less route. 

Brunei was neither generous nor fair with his collaborators, and relentlessly exploited PR opportunities. His portraits in front of the vast drag chains at the launch of the Great Eastern are one of the earliest uses of the photographic medium for promotional purpose, the variety of poses tried out indicating the intention behind the process. 

Although the same measurement techniques for rainfall acidity have not been used over a long period of time and sampling has been carried out at relatively few locations, the trend between 1955-1956 and 1975-1976 was for the area with a pH of less than 4.6 to expand greatly over the eastern United States. The largest increases occurred over the southeastern United States, where industrialization grew rapidly during the period. The last several decades have also seen an increased area of lower pH over northern Europe. 

The composition of oil shales differs greatly from one shale to another. For example, the amount of oil obtained from one ton of eastern U.S. shale deposit is only 10 gallons, compared to 30 gallons from western U.S. shale deposits. 

There is a zonal atmospheric circulation system associated with this normal ocean condition called the Walker Cell (Eig. 10-7). Evaporation rates are high over the warm pool and warm moist air ascends to great heights (deep convection) producing extensive cloud systems and rain. The Walker Cell is closed by westerly winds aloft and subsidence in the high-pressure zone of the eastern Pacific. 

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