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2012 ΦBK Video Series: "Thinking about the Unsinkable: The Titanic Tragedy at 100" from Edward Tenner
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In his second ΦBK Video Series lecture, Edward Tenner takes the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the
Titanic
as an opportunity to look at the human factors that led to the tragedy. Tenner uses examples of other ocean liner and ferry disasters to add context to what we already know about the famous White Star Line ship, and he debunks some of the common myths about what led to the loss of so many lives.
Edward Tenner is a historian of technology and culture. An independent writer and speaker on the unintended consequences of innovation, Tenner holds a Ph.D. in European history from the University of Chicago and was executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press. Tenner is a former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. He has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and is the author of several books, including Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology (Knopf, 2003). He was a founding advisor for the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center, where he remains a senior research associate. Tenner was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate at Princeton University.
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