It’s not often that we take group pictures here but the engine work created the occasion.
So here is the team before we started touching the engine:
Team Work
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Hammer Fest!
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As mentioned in Dave’s blog of Nov 22nd, our whole department got to play with hammers, chisels and other air-scribes while on the engine this week. The feeling that conservation is somehow (or sometimes?) close to mining was strongly emphasized by having on average of eight people confined in a tank, hammering from 9am to 5pm. The analogy stops there though: we’re not underground AND, in front of our wide-open eyes (behind our dirty protection glasses), theMonitor’s engine takes shape and becomes alive!
Approximately 2 tons of concretion was removed from the beast, i.e. about 500 lb/person removed in 4 days (who needs to go the YMCA?).
Oh By the Way… Or We Are Finally Taking the Time to Update You About the Port Carriage Work!
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Pocket Contents
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Three coins, a pocket knife and three wooden buttons were recovered from the pocket of one of two sailors whose remains were discovered inside the turret during archaeological excavations in 2002. The treatment of the coins was completed recently.
下面的第一块最有可能是一个编织海r Large Cent. The top pictures correspond to theMonitor’s coin; the pictures directly below them were found online and used for comparison. On the observe side of theMonitor’s coin (left picture), one can slightly distinguish the outline of Liberty. On the reverse (right picture), the word ONE is readable (again, barely) in the top half section of the coin. This type of coin was minted between 1835 and 1857. They were the last version of the Large US Cents. They were 2.75cm diameter and a 100% copper. The diameter of theMonitor’s coin is 2.55cm. If this is a Braided Hair Cent, this loss in diameter can be related to corrosion phenomenon. The composition of this piece was analyzed by XRF a couple weeks ago (see Dave’s blog form August 25th) and was determined to be 100% copper!
One Side of the Port Carriage Down!
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Great progress was made at the beginning of the month on the port carriage! The wrought iron side plate AND the wood inboard part were removed from the gun support.
Here are some photos…
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