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Title: Pick, shovel and pluck; further experiences "With men who do things"
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell), 1876-
Subjects: Technology Engineering
Publisher: New York, Munn & Co., Inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hole in the sea and setour motion picture apparatus in that. A hole in the sea! I exclaimed. Youre fooling. Oh no, Vm not. Thats exactly what we do. Welower a chamber through a well in the bottom of the bargewith a big tube connected to it, and then we go down insidethe tube and take photographs from a window in the cham-ber. You just wait until you see it. I will take you downand you can watch Tim at work on a wreck. There is anold blockade runner under the barge that was wrecked duringthe Civil War. Tims going to go down and pick up somecannon balls and any other treasures he can find while wekinematograph him at his work. As we came up to the barge, we noticed that it was namedvery appropriately Jules Verne. When we got aboard,while Tim was donning his diving suit, Mr. Wallace ex-plained to us how the tube was constructed. It was builtup of units as they called them, each unit consisting of twosteel rings three feet in diameter, connected by little steel 64 Pick J Shovel and Pluck.
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A Hole in the Sea. 65 plates, cleverly hinged so that they could fold inward like anaccordion or a Japanese lantern. The units were a footdeep when extended, but only three inches deep when col-lapsed. Ten units bolted together formed a section, andover each section there was a sleeve of heavy rubberizedcanvas to keep the water out. Some men were puttingtogether a section as we went aboard, which gave us achance to see just how the tube was constructed. You might just as well go on down, boys, said Mr.Wallace, and have a look around while we are waiting forTim. But how do you get down, I asked. I dont see anyladder. Why, step on the rings of course. said Mr. Wallace. But isnt there an air-lock? No, we dont need any, was the reply. Dont youremember what I told you? This is a hole in the sea, andits an open hole all the way down to the chamber forty feetbelow us. It wouldnt matter if it were four hundred feet.Thats the beauty of this system. If we want to go deeper,all we need to do is

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