ARTEFACTS: Diving-bell, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay

The object that became a museum.   By Jim Kelleher   This 90-ton diving-bell, built in 1866 in Drogheda, was designed by Bindon Blood Stoney, who was a port engineer from 1856 to 1898. A diving-bell is open at the bottom and allows six workmen to descend down a funnel through an airlock to work ... Read more

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