Titanic Sinks!

The sinking of the Titanic was a huge blow to industrial science and the promise of machines making life faster and better.

The Titanic was the fastest and best. It was reputed to be unsinkable, but it still sunk. For the oldest members of the Transportation and Telephone (TNT) Generation–born 1900 to 1920–this tragedy was a generational moment.

And it all happened on this fateful day.