Ok, we had planned on answering some more reader questions in this blog post, but a recent column that we read is too intriging not to share. It involves woodworking, (of course) patent battles, and even the Titanic!

Starboard view of the White Star Line passenger liner R.M.S. embarking on its ill-fated maiden voyage. April 10, 1912 Near Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

On April 16th this year Karen Koenig wrote a short blog for the Woodworking Network about how the sinking of Titanic benefitted an American woodworking company. Her article is interesting all by itself, but the story gets even better. It seems that one of the passengers who persihed on Titanic was a principal at Wadkin Machinery who may have been on his way to the US to challenge Oliver Machinery over a "Pattern Milling" machine patent, and one of his decendants had read Karen's blog and responded!

In the August 3rd edition of the same blog Rich Christianson tells of the intriguing comment posted to Karen's blog. Rich writes: "Last week questions about that lawsuit from 100 years ago resurfaced in a most intriguing comment that has been posted to Karen’s blog by Andrew Jarvis of Leicester, England." Mr. Jarvis claims to be a decendant of Denzil Jarvis who perished when Titanic sank.

Rich relates his own detective efforts to dig up some more of the history here, and we thought you would find the entire thing as interesting as we have. Some questions remain unanswered and we will be following this to see if more is revealed. Frankly, we think this is better than most anything currently on television!

Next blog we will be discussing the abrasive materials and their proper uses (unless more comes out on this Titanic story) but until then we still encourage you to contact us with comments and questions! Please feel free to add your comments here on the blog, on our Facebook page, or via Twitter. Let us know what you think! -2Sand.com