TXnMA
That is fascinating work, TXnMA. I envy you-the REAL contact with history is something that I occasionally only get touches of, and you were immersed in it.
LOL, two unintended references to “contact” and “immersion” there...:)
TXnMA
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Speaking of "immersion", I became so, re the Hunley -- only because I "immersed" myself. (See new tagline...)
Shortly after the Hunley was investigated, and Chris Amer published that no trace of a mount for a torpedo spar was found on the upper bow, we visited our daughter and her husband in Charleston. By that time, Son-In-Law had become a big-time Hunley fan -- and I "caught the "Hunley bug" from him.
It was while we were standing atop Fort Sumter -- and looking out toward where the Hunley probably lay -- that I had the idea of creating the "Hunley 'Spar'" webforum. So -- atop Ft.Sumter -- I announced that I had decided to "get on the Hunley team"... Since we were living in MA at the time, S-I-L's, "Yeah, riiiight..." response was expected. (I kept to myself that I intended to use the Internet...) '-}
When we got back to MA, I hand-coded the forum (using lots of HTML Tables). Then I contacted Chris Amer of SCIAA and said that -- if he would put me in touch with at least one archæologist, one historian, and one engineer from the Hunley Team, I'd have us try to ID how the torpedo was deployed. And, if possible, ID what torpedo and triggering method was used...
Long story short: Not long afterward, S-I-L told me to check out the SCIAA's webpage. Thereon was a statement to the effect that, "One of our more promising avenues of research is a new webforum on the Hunley's torpedo and its deployment mechanism -- hosted by [TXnMA].
That research was encapsulated in the collage I posted in #34, on this thread. Then -- Ca 2013 -- seeing the torpedo remains still bolted to the spar...
...stimulated me to resume work on the subject.
Again -- I self-started and gave myself an assignment to determine what torpedo was used -- and, how it could have worked when bolted firmly to the "spar"....
That led to my new work on how the Singer "Box Fuzes" could have been converted from Lanyard triggering to Contact triggering...
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