The last of the images from a recent visit to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in Orlando, Florida.

Recovered items include this thermometer still containing mercury and its backing showing various boiling temperatures, the cover of a Mud Box, a strainer used to trap waste from going into the pumps, and a couple of pieces of coal from the approximately 6,000 tons Titanic carried to power the ship.

Another view of the boilers.

The bridge deck includes a recreation of the ship’s wheel and compass that steers the ship.  Recovered from the wreck beyond is one of two Main Engine Room Telegraphs from the bridge from where commands could be sent to the engine room.  As the ship neared the iceberg it was through these telegraphs that the engine room was first ordered to throw the engines into reverse then, after the collision, to stop the engines.

Detail of the recovered Main Engine Room Telegraph.

Detail of the recovered Main Engine Room Telegraph.

Recreation on the bridge of the antique phone system and the watertight door indicator panel. Note the clock is stopped at 11:40 p.m., the approximate time the collision occurred on Sunday, 14 April 2012.

A recreation of a portion of the covered First Class Promenade Deck.  The air temperature here in the exhibit is near freezing as it was on that fateful night.

A view from the deck shows the star-filled sky along with distant icebergs and a life boat heading in the direction of lights on the horizon, most likely the ship Californian that ignored the tragedy taking place nearby.

Recovered from the wreck is this illustrated English language dictionary once owned by German immigrant Franz Pulbaum heading to the United States to start a new life.

The remains of a Prometheus Electric Heater of the type used in First Class cabins.

At right is shown the center support from a deck bench recovered from the wreck.  The image at left shows a deck bench and its supports in the debris field around the wreck.

A two-ton fragment of the Titanic’s hull recovered from the wreck.  This fragment is from the starboard side from the area around the dishwashing and china storage rooms on D Deck.  This fragment, along with a much larger piece, had fallen away from the hull and was found in the debris field around the wreck.

“Please fee free to touch this fragment of Titanic’s hull.”  Special attention is given to how this steel piece recovered in 1996 was found to be twisted and bent reflecting some of the forces that came to play on it during the accident.

The end of a visit to the Titanic exhibit. At least until the next visit!