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Article · History
Titanic's boiler-room fans came from a tea planter's works
Samuel Davidson, once a planter in Cachar, founded a Belfast works that developed tea machinery, and its Sirocco fans forced air into Titanic's boiler rooms.
Guide · Estates & Terroir
Estates and Terroir
Assam tea grows on a hot, low, river-fed floodplain in northeast India. The Brahmaputra valley's heat, monsoon rain, and soil are what make the leaf malty and strong.