"Titanic" sank to the music of a toy pig

The researchers were able to restore the song that is playing in one of the lifeboats "Titanic." Melody sound of a toy pig, owned by American journalist Edith Rosenbaum, who was at the time of the tragedy 32 years. Edith and her toy survived the wreck of "Titanic", but only recently specialists from the National Maritime Museum in London, where the pig fell into the year 2003 as part of the collection of Lord MakKuitti, returned to the music "pig" in the operation, and after 101 years after the tragedy of the melody It was recorded.



In 1970, an American in an interview told about those sad events, "I refuse to leave a sinking ship, but I was approached by a sailor and said," You say you do not want to be saved, then I'll save your child, "he grabbed My toy pig and threw it into the boat. " Edith Rosenbaum with the rest of the escapees passengers had to spend in the boat about seven hours, and almost all the time lost toy melody distract children and adults from their unenviable position.

To open a pig without damaging the fragile and old mechanism, the museum staff have used X-ray analysis, which showed that the body of toys made of wood and papier-mâché. As the curator of the National Maritime Museum Rory McEvoy, when it was necessary to understand the structure of the musical mechanism, the researchers had to filter out radiation by placing in the path of rays thin copper sheet - the only way analysis revealed the structure of pigs in detail.



Inside the logo Toy researchers found a star on which now hope to determine the manufacturer of the music box.

«3D-modeling, with which we began their study already supposed to be used in the study and preservation of other unique objects," - said McEvoy.





via factroom.ru