The theme, in 1912, is captured by this image in all its gigantic glory.
Look carefully at the poster and you will see that smoke is coming out of only three of the four smokestacks. That's because originally there were only three furnaces, and three smokestacks, After construction commenced, the ship's architect determined that with three smokestacks the ship appeared unbalanced. So he added a fake, cosmetic smokestack, the only purpose of which was to improve the Titanic's aesthetics.
A few other Titanic facts: Nearly 15,000 yard workers were employed to build the Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic - the largest moving objects ever constructed at the time.
The center anchor weighed 15-1/2 tons and the Titanic required three anchors to restrain it. A team of horses were required to transport each anchor. It had 29 boilers, each 15" 9" in diameter. It had double-bottomed hulls, each weighed 26,000 tons and stretched 882' -nearly three football fields in length. The Titanic was owned by J.P. Morgan, an American millionaire who was booked on the maiden voyage but then canceled his plans.
