Ergonomics pioneer Dr Hudson Slatt has slammed critics of his work arranging deckchairs on the Titanic, saying the task was “hugely worthwhile”.
On his retirement, Dr Slatt lamented that his entire life’s work had become a byword for futility.
After the disaster, which claimed the life of more than 1,500 passengers, he said he went to to develop the ground-breaking Slatt Spatial Conjecture which squeezed more theoretical deckchairs into an imaginary ellipsoid than ever before.
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“These are the priceless benefits and legacies of blue-sky thinking and lived experience,” said Dr Slatt. He also wrote the definite work on optimum seating arrangements called Deckchair, My Deckchair.
“Because the ship was tapered, I was forced to experiment with conical shapes,” he said, which broke new ground. “Later, I became a key part of the team for the Apollo 11 moon landing because that was a nightmare in terms of accommodating comfortable seating.”
Asked about his own lucky escape from the tragedy, Dr Slatt, 32 at the time, said he wrapped imself in pink deckchair material and squeaked to the crew he was “L’il Winnie Pearl, the ice cream girl”. He was placed in a lifeboat with the other women and children.
The real Winnie Pearl, 14, drowned in a North Atlantic boating accident in 1912.
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