Val Doonican’s “Marvellous Toy”!
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We opened the week with an engineering drawing of Monsieur Papin’s “Digester”, and so we end the week with another engineering drawing of a very complex piece of machinery. It reminded Morning Mary for one, of a song by the late Waterford-born singer Val Doonican, “The Marvellous Toy” – www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJ0m8Rj5-Y
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890 - 1910
NLI Ref: M23/56/8
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Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890 - 1910
NLI Ref: M23/56/8
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Auparavant
Interesting explanations. Thank you
Foxglove
does it spin a "yarn" and wooley jumpers
Niall McAuley
First impression is a vertical twin cylinder steam engine driving a generator.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley On the buttons a bit quicker that me. Just the same comment as I was going to post. Steam intake pipes at top and you can see some wires leading away from stator/field coils.
cargeofg
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-... The initials on the drawing are not the same but based on the link the generator in the Ford Plant was called a Steinmetz but Charles P Steinmetz was called in to fix it.
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
Electrical Generator.
O Mac
looks like it's driving a tachometer.
John Spooner
Another Steinmetz engraving
Carol Maddock
Apologies for veering wildly off-topic, but if there are any cricket buffs among you, could you please have a glance at this photograph below, and tell us what Ned Murphy's bumpy rubbery thing is. It's for a sports thing... https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5945646503/
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] It's the back of his batting glove. I remember playing with similar gloves, but individual fingers with rubber spikes rather than the whole back of the hand. Nowadays the protection on the backs of gloves resembles sausages. There are sets of batting gloves for right handers and left handers. A right hander needs protection for his or her right thumb, but not the left. And vice versa. The ones I remember were like this ehive.com/collections/3255/objects/281052/gloves-early-20...
suckindeesel
Two centrifical governors
John Spooner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] The left glove looks as if it offers more substantial protection to the back of his hand than what we can see of the right glove (which need to protect the fingers more), so I'd guess tentatively that Ned was right-handed.
John Spooner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] And it looks as if his is of a type where the thumb is separate from but connected by a strap to the finger bit. From what I recall, you put the fingers in their bit, then wound the strap round your wrist and put the thumb in its place. It meant that your palms were bare when gripping that bat.
suckindeesel
Looks earlier than C.P., could it be an engraving by E. Steinmetz who did technical stuff? Here's one of his engravings www.ssplprints.com/image/113587/steinmetz-e-the-wimshurst...
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Thanks a million, John! Lovely gem that Ned may have been right-handed...
oaktree_brian_1976
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley The large "wheel" to the right looks like it has copper-wound blades in it, generator would be my thought or an electrical engine if you supplied current to it.
oaktree_brian_1976
It looks a lot like this generator shown here, circa 1895. Steinmetz was from Schenectady, New York. edisontechcenter.org/CharlesProteusSteinmetz.html and this photo of steam generators at a plant in New York City, look almost identical. dailygazette.com/article/2017/09/03/from-home-to-space-ge...
jamica1
Very nice item
suckindeesel
Doesn't look like any AC generator, which CP helped to develope, that I'm familiar with, the rotor windings are unusual, appear to have two,sets of windings.
BeachcomberAustralia
I wonder if "Ned Murphy's bumpy rubbery thing" also made weird noises ...
arensee
Lovely drawing ! Reminds me of a poem called "The Diagonal Steam Trap " by Crawford Howard ! Listen to it here.. youtu.be/IxUXviafW94 Enjoy !