Some steamy items from my recent vacation

[AmbroseParkes]

While gallivanting about on my most recent exploration voyage, I happened to make some daguerreotypes of some steamy looking objects that caught my eye.  Some more so than others, but these all caught my eye for some reason.

By the by, I apologize for the terrible quality, my portable electrotelegraphical communicator (terrible name, I know, just made up on the spot, chaps) has rather poor quality, as do most I'm sure.

A new steering wheel for my Zeppelin perhaps?

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Some gauges, with brass, also a good accessory for the zeppelin.

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Not quite sure what this is, but it was upon the wall at the "World-Famous Original Oyster House" and it caught my eye.

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probably the worst picture, but an aged portable breathing apparatus for use in your undersea explorations

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"Detached Engine and Boiler" because sometimes you need that ready-made steam engine, for the tinkerer who's in a hurry

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These next two were upon a poster entitled "Today's America" hanging upon the Cracker Barrel wall (not sure about you chaps elsewhere in the empire, but Cracker Barrel is a fine southern dining restaurant in the American country)

"A Dirigible On Guard" because everyone has (or by jove they should) a guard zeppelin.

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"Merchant Steamers at Sea" the backbone of the empire

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So, what do you chaps have to say about these?

[Phyrkrakr]

Wow, those are quite some nice finds.  Number three up there looks like some sort of manual water pump.  I would imagine one would, if so inclined, raise and lower the handle atop and it would move fluid drawn from the bottom and eject it out the aperture near the top.

[Dr cornelius quack]

Wow, those are quite some nice finds.  Number three up there looks like some sort of manual water pump.  I would imagine one would, if so inclined, raise and lower the handle atop and it would move fluid drawn from the bottom and eject it out the aperture near the top.

Bang on Mr. P.

The two basic types of  manual cylinder pump are called "lift pump" or "force pump" depending on whether or not the water is ejected under pressure. What you have there is a lift pump, probably used as a Bilge pump to remove bilge water from a small boat.

A force pump has a different arrangement of valves and would be used to give a pressurised jet of water, an example would be a "stirrup pump" for fire fighting.

It's beautiful, but it should be in a boat doing a useful job, not fixed to a wall in a restaurant.

Dr. Q.

[Otto Von Pifka]

that blimp picture reminds me of a story a long time ago in a military history magazine. it was a protracted battle between a patrol dirigible and a german U-boat in the waters near Bermuda, if my memory serves me right.

facinating reading!

[AmbroseParkes]

Smashing, I knew someone here would know what it was.

And that account sounds fantastic, if you ever do run across it again, I'm sure others besides myself would enjoy reading of it.

[Lady Lavinea Dreadful]

fantastic! sounds like you had quit the adventure!

[CapnSamwise]

It's beautiful, but it should be in a boat doing a useful job, not fixed to a wall in a restaurant.

Dr. Q.

A terribly tacky restaurant, none the less. :-/ Not like any of the enlightened individuals (minus our fine OP, of course) could really appreciate what any of those things do, outside of "Oh, look at the shiny!"

. . . Not that this, in any way, looks to demean the considerable populace of these forums that operate under the same mindset. >.> Think I'm going to stop before I make fun of everyone ELSE here.

[Lady Lavinea Dreadful]

It's beautiful, but it should be in a boat doing a useful job, not fixed to a wall in a restaurant.

Dr. Q.

ok...i have to admit here, that i got my nick name of Boo due to my having the mind set of a small rodent when near any thing shiny...so i might very well have said "oh looks shinnies!" as i darted off to get a closer look

Cheers
PS just givin ya a hard time

A terribly tacky restaurant, none the less. :-/ Not like any of the enlightened individuals (minus our fine OP, of course) could really appreciate what any of those things do, outside of "Oh, look at the shiny!"

. . . Not that this, in any way, looks to demean the considerable populace of these forums that operate under the same mindset. >.> Think I'm going to stop before I make fun of everyone ELSE here.