When the Titanic set sail from England to New York, it was famously thought as unsinkable. However, its maiden voyage ended in tragedy when it struck an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board lost their lives.
The Library of Congress says the Titanic disaster "punctured the aura of man's triumph over nature that had grown out of the Industrial Revolution and the Progressive Era." This catastrophic event highlighted the limitations of human engineering and the dangers of overconfidence.
