[FRIAM] Immersive projection and gasometers

[Frank Wimberly]

When I was a little boy in rural NM we lit the house at night with what my
grandfather called coal oil (kerosene) lamps.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024, 12:55 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> 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)
>  [image: image.png]
>
> 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.
>
>  [image: image.png]
>
> 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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