9/25/2023 0 Comments First submarine civil wamThese books about the past have a haunting resonance given recent heightened nuclear tensions between North Korea and the USA. The most poignant, for the artist were books written by individuals about their own war experiences, and written in the hope that ‘we never forget the horrors of war’. The ‘found’ books were nearly all about War: the many wars in history and especially about the first and second world wars, the countries involved and the aftermath of war. The exhibition is about memory- the very human act of forgetting, and selective remembering and the artist draws attention to the books as being both visually and historically intriguing conduits for this. The installation is made from over 300 book covers, ‘rescued’ from the United Service Institution of WA Library (a library belonging to Officers of the Defence Forces at the Perth Barracks) that was disbanded a few years ago and was going to be sent to landfill. The submarine along with its 35 crew disappeared later that year, while on patrol near New Guinea, and after being lost for 103 years was discovered again in 2017. This large-scale 14 metre long installation is made in the shape of the AE1 – the first Australian Submarine- built in 1913. Video for Australian National Submarine Museum: This installation is now displayed at Shenton College, Shenton Park, WA Listen to an artist interview () between myself and Andre Lipscombe about this exhibition on the Art Collective Website: (opens for PIAF festival exhibition 12 Feb) WARSHIP- the Glorious Decline of the Officers’ LibraryĪn installation by Jo Darbyshire At John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA 21 October 2018 - 10 March 2019 Aft WARSHIP- the Glorious Decline of the Officers’ Library Gibbons, T., Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War. I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work. But who notices that in the full flush of either battle - or invention? The South scored one victory and paid a kamikaze price in human life. So the Civil War was the great proving ground for modern submarines. They also bought a French submarine, the Alligator. Perhaps that was a tribute to the Whale's intelligence. They called it the Intelligent Whale, but they didn't use it in combat. That was the first time a sub destroyed an enemy ship. But it never came back to the surface from that Pyhrric victory. Finally, in 1864, the Hunley sank the ironclad Union sloop Housatonic. The South hurled it into battle over and over. The Hunley's weapon was also a spar torpedo. It also warned the crew by flickering out when too little oxygen was left. An eight-man crew turned a hand-cranked propeller in that terrible small space. It was made from a steam boiler forty feet long and less than four feet in diameter. The first real submarine was the Confederate Hunley. The South built twenty more Davids, and some of them damaged Union boats. But the hole was above the waterline and the ship survived. The David attacked a Union ironclad and managed to blow a hole in its side. The trick was to ram it into the enemy and hope you suffered less damage than he did. A long underwater pole held an explosive charge out in front. So her smokestack and breathing tube protruded above the surface.ĭavid's claim to the title submarine is flimsy, but her offensive weapon was a spar torpedo. The steam-driven David couldn't burn fuel to make steam if it was fully submerged. Civil War ironclads had lowered themselves further and further down into the protective water. David wasn't a pure submarine, but it came close. They launched a boat called the David in 1862 and sent it at the Union Goliaths. Years later, he made a submarine for the French and tried without success to sink the enemy with it.ĭuring the Civil War, the Confederacy made a far more serious, far more desperate, try at submarine warfare. One person who got the point was Robert Fulton. His one-man, hand-cranked machine did little harm to the English in 1776, but it made the point. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.īushnell's Turtle was the first submarine used in war. Today, we invent the submarine, against all odds.
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