[FRIAM] Immersive projection and gasometers

[Stephen Guerin]

Steve,

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:17 AM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> fascinating... of course SFe (and any city of the "town gas" era) would
> have such a thing!


This 1882 map got my initial interest up - you can see The Santa Fe
Gasworks gasometer as item 29 on the north side of town (left side of map)
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check out full-size map here:
https://guerin.acequia.io/SantaFeHistory/Santa-FE-NM-1882-SM.webp. I
actually order a poster size print last year.


> do you know if SFe had public lighting or was it
> just used indoors and industrialy?


Looking in the Santa Fe New Mexican Archive just now, here's a Dec 13, 1880
when the gasworks was completed two years before the 1882 map above by Mr.
Ireland saying Santa Fe just became the first town in New Mexico to be
lighted by gas and kerosene will become as little used as candles are now.

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Full page from that day:
https://guerin.acequia.io/SantaFeHistory/SantaFeGasworks_1880_NewMexicanDec13.png

Wikipedia on Gasholders / Gasometers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_holder

Nice 90- second UK enthusiast video on history and "rise and fall" of
Gasometers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SopJr0yHt-w




> I always wondered how people
> committed suicide by sticking their head in an oven... it seems that
> before natural gas (town gas/syn gas produced by heating coal/coke/etc
> anaerobically) was prevalent and had a lot of CO in it which was the
> primary "poison" as compared to simple suffocation by excluding O2 laden
> air.
>
> In europe I saw the skeleton/scaffolding from "gasometers" and wondered
> what they were...  it wasn't obvious since they were clearly not sturdy
> enough to hold water-pressure (no longer had their envelopes) ...
>
> I was just reading in Eric Dolen's Leviathan about how France wrote a
> huge contract to the American Whalers (Nantucket) to provide whale oil
> for Paris's not small streetlight network which previously ran on tallow
> candles and vegetable oil lamps...    it was at least partly a way to
> clandestinely fund Americans gearing up to throw of England (who France
> was at odds with at the time).
>
> In Australia (and elsewhere)  sheep/cattle ranchers developed a
> two-water-tank system for generating methane gas to run the arm...
> filling a big (30' diameter?) tank with manure slurry and inverting a
> (28'ish) tank upside down on it created an anaerobic chamber for the
> methane-producing bacteria to go wild.   A hose out the top would feed
> low-pressure (increase it by piling rocks on the inverted tank?) gas to
> the home/outbuildings and in some cases even a tractor coupled via a
> baloon filled (and floating between tank and tractor)...
>


very cool!



>
> On 8/1/24 9:43 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> > The meeting of projection and my historical interest in gasometers.
> > Santa Fe used to have one near Ft Marcy Park.
> >
> >
> https://www.techradar.com/pro/at-almost-131-feet-high-the-worlds-tallest-projector-screen-is-so-big-that-it-needs-seven-ultra-bright-laser-projectors-to-make-it-work
>
>
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