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