Belfast: 'Evolution of Lighting: Ireland'. Gas Works, mechanical stoker and drawer.
[graphic].
| Main Creator: | |
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| Contributors: | |
| Summary: | Utilities. |
| In collection: | Mason Photographic Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[ca. 1890-1910].
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| Notes: | Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/46789212334/ Physical description: Glass slide 1. more |
| Arrangement: | Sub-fond. |
Advances in science and technology to start this week with public lighting evolving in Belfast. After the eons during which lighting was by candle or taper moving over to gas lighting must have seemed to be a revolutionary advance?
Whether an incremental or exponential advance, this mechanical stoker device must have allowed a LOT more coke and coal to be fed and maintained in these numerous furnaces. While it must've put at least a few chaps out of work, one imagines their lungs (and backs) were better off at least......
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910
NLI Ref: M8/8
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Thomas Holmes Mason, Thomas Mayne, Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited, Lantern Slides, National Library of Ireland, Lighting, Belfast, Ulster, automated, Gas works, coal fired, Mechanical stoker, Stoker, Mechanisation, Automation, Industrial automation
Comments
Niall McAuley
Gas lighting was not new in 1900, electricity was already replacing it.
Posted: 01.04.2019
Niall McAuley
The innovation here is a machine which stokes the boiler instead of having men with shovels do it.
Posted: 01.04.2019
abandoned railways
Belfast Gasworks was built on Ormeau Road, between 1887 and 1893. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtjBjgHkAAM
Posted: 01.04.2019
DannyM8
Robots taking jobs in 1900 - the headlines do not change!!
Posted: 01.04.2019
robinparkes
There were gas lamps in the street where I lived off the Antrim Road in Belfast in the early 50s. I remember the lamplighter coming each evening.
Posted: 01.04.2019
AndyBrii
West's Compressed air charging machine - (in Gas Manufacture Chemistry by Butterfield 1896):
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/angeljim46/23962376907/in/dateposted-public/]
This replaced manual charging (below): [https://www.flickr.com/photos/angeljim46/38111077104/in/dateposted-public/]
Posted: 01.04.2019
geogblog2
This was a coal gasification process. Any word on carburetted water gas?
Posted: 01.04.2019
jamica1
Wonderful image
Posted: 01.04.2019
oaktree_brian_1976
I was going to say it's not natural gas, it's made from coal.
Posted: 02.04.2019
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley], [https://www.flickr.com/photos/abandonedrailsireland], [https://www.flickr.com/photos/angeljim46], and everyone else! I somehow hadn't really married the words "mechanical" and "stoker" to understand what a useful and essential piece of kit this must have been. I've updated the description. But not the map. Do we think we could map it to the mighty gasworks on the Ormeau Road?
Posted: 02.04.2019
Dr. Ilia
Excellent composition!
Posted: 03.04.2019
