Jack the Ripper Tech

[sdreid]

Thanks K - some beautiful machinery there!

[K-453]

"Crossness Pumping Station at east London near river Thames contains four big sewage pumping engines, one of them -- Prince Consort -- restored to working condition. ... The engines are three-cylinder triple expansion engines - upgraded from single cylinder Watt engines (1865) in 1899."

A little video clip (7:17 min) I came across and thought I'd share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlp1aG1VJRI

Must be hynotizing watching that engine for a while ...

If Jack crawled through the sewers, this could be the place where he saw the light of day again.

[Steve S]

The Colt rifle was initially used by Berdan's Sharpshooters in the Civil War...Soon replaced by Sharps, due to afore-mentioned problems......BTW, as 1888 saw the British replace the Martini-Henry and socket bayonet with the Lee-Metford and knife Bayonet, I wonder which type was thought to have been used on Tabram.........?

[sdreid]

The revolver Civil War repeating rifle had a propensity to burn the forearm on your non trigger pulling appendage.

It was still a cap and ball weapon, I believe, so you needed to have several cylinders loaded up if you wanted to be effective and use more than six shots. By 1888, it would have been an all metal cartridge gun.

[sdreid]

No doubt about it!

[Observer]

The electric fan had been invented but it wasn't in wide use yet.

So theoretically the proverbial could have hit it when Warren learnt of the death of Mary Kelly Stan

[sdreid]

The electric fan had been invented but it wasn't in wide use yet.

[sdreid]

They had mechanical refrigeration in 1888 but no genius had yet figured out that you could pipe that into a room and have air conditioning.

[sdreid]

Indeed? From hot gas leakage between the cylinder and barrel?

There is a modern revolver rifle/shotgun made by Rossi/Taurus but hopefully it has some shielding to prevent powder burning one's forearm.

[sdreid]

Yes Ginger, that was it.

[Ginger]

The revolver Civil War repeating rifle had a propensity to burn the forearm on your non trigger pulling appendage.

Indeed? From hot gas leakage between the cylinder and barrel?

[sdreid]

The revolver Civil War repeating rifle had a propensity to burn the forearm on your non trigger pulling appendage.

[sdreid]

Hi Ginger:

Yes, my next to oldest son has a breech loading civil war rifle that uses that type of ammunition. I forgot its name but I have loaded and shot it a few times.

I found out that it was Smith Carbine.

[sdreid]

I believe he has two Civil War Rifles, one I think is a Shapes and one is a Smith Carbine.

[Steve S]

It's one of the weirder ones...Burnside or some such...Sharps has the dropping breechblock that shears the rear off the combustable cartridge as it rises......