Deep Sea Hydraulic Engine
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To end this week, where we have moved about the country quite a bit, we have a most unusual image from the Mason Photographic Collection. A “Deep Sea Hydraulic Engine” plan which at that time was unusual or significant enough to merit a photograph. Why did Mason have this image, and why is it so important?
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890 - 1910
NLI Ref: M23/53/10
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Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890 - 1910
NLI Ref: M23/53/10
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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sharon.corbet
It's possible that this is an illustration from a presentation held on January 27th 1914 by the Professor Joly at the RDS.
sharon.corbet
It may also feature in this article called "On the investigation of the deep sea deposits" by Professor John Joly. If so, the hydraulic engine was used to take samples of deep sea deposits.
sharon.corbet
Deep Sea Hydraulic Engine as part of the abovementioned article.
sharon.corbet
Thomas Mason was apparently in the business of preparing slides for lectures (see the description of some he prepared for Sir William John Thompson for example.) He would probably have been responsible for photographing the engineering drawing for use in Prof. Joly's presentation and that's why it is present in the collection, rather than being of any particular importance itself. (Assuming you're not interested in the history of deep sea deposit sampling.)
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Flickroonies are always interested! Especially in deep sea deposits:-)
Foxglove
i am digging deep to dredge up a witty comment
Foxglove
or even a jolly one
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Bottom feeder!
Carol Maddock
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet] I presume John Joly is a rellie of our Jaspar Robert Joly, donor of some of Library Towers' most precious collections?
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Nephew, I think. His potted biography above mentions "Henry Edward, the fourth child, 1784-1852, married Martha Revelle. John Plunket Joly (1826-1858) was their son." (John Plunket was his father. ) Whereas the Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography says this about Jaspar Robert Joly: "Joly, Jaspar Robert (1819–92), book collector, was born at Hollywood House, Brackagh, Clonbulloge, King's Co. (Offaly), on 26 May 1819, the eldest of three sons of Henry Edward Joly (1784–1852), a clergyman, and his wife Martha, daughter of Robert Revelle of Hartwill, Co. Wicklow."
sharon.corbet
Wikipedia article. It also links to a nice article about him.
sharon.corbet
Some of his photos are also on the NLI, for example this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/48371068177/
O Mac
To have "Deep Sea Hydraulic Engine" written on the drawing is really overstating the obvious.....!!.
DannyM8
it surprised me that the scale measurement is Metric rather than Imperial!
Niall McAuley
John Joly in the 1911 census, living on Temple Road, a professor of geology.
Niall McAuley
Here is Hollywood House of 1810 at the NIAH.
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[aside] Via Trove, "Clothes and the Swimmer", Professor Joly's 1916 advice and explanation, which must have been particularly useful for shipwrecked sailors during WW1 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212931290
cargeofg
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/history-si/Maybe aimed or scripted for scientists. The drawing for manufacturing could have been in Imperial and more comprehensive. No dogs today and it is Guide Dogs Day in Ireland to day.
sharon.corbet
He even wrote poetry (about a fossil), and has a crater on Mars named after him.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Very moving poem, but did himself and H.G. Wells ever build this monstrous sea engine?
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Oh, it’s not a submarine or something like that. It’s for taking samples from the sea bed. He already had designed a way of taking the samples - but to do it you need to be able to get energy down to the bottom of the sea, which is not easy. He’s talking about 1000 fathoms (about 1800m) down. This invention is using the water pressure at 1800m (or lower) to give you the energy you need to drill into the sea bed to take samples. I haven’t read it fully to understand all the details to be honest, but it’s called a hydraulic engine because it‘s using water (or a liquid) to do work. It’s not monstrous either - based on the scale it’s less than a metre! I dunno whether it was ever actually used.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Just kiddin'
mrrobertwade (wadey)
Every home should have one
suckindeesel
Seems to have been one of the last of the great Victorian polymaths