Acknowledgements
With thanks to Oliver White for his help in applying Simpson's rules to the estimate of the volume of the Swiss Re headquarters building.
Notes
1 The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 16 Sep. 2013.
2 Newsround, BBC1 Television, 16 Sep. 2013.
3 Ludvigsen, Italian racing red.
4 Oxford English Dictionary ‘tonnage’.
5 MacGregor, The Tea Clippers.
6 Lack of experience of launching a ship of this size meant that it was difficult and the launching operation took three months.
7 Lavery, Ship.
8 Falkus, The Blue Funnel Legend.
9 Blake, Titanic: A passenger's guide.
10 Ibid.
11 Dunn, Passenger Liners.
12 All tonnages in the modern era are taken from Sea-Web, a database of the registered particulars of all merchant ships: www.sea-web.com
13 This vessel had four name changes over its life, subsequently called Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis and Mont.
14 The Measure of Things website: www.bluebullprojects.com/measureofthings
15 Beranek, Music, Acoustics and Architecture.
16 Abel and Jenkins, Norman Foster