Thread: Guessing Game Mk III : What Engineering Marvel is this.?

Brillant !!!!!!!!!!!!

It was called the Trieste.
it went to over 35700ft below sea level.
It carried Two people.
It was fitted with different pressure spheres over the years ...about 5 inches thick.
Ballast tanks don't work at great depths, so it carried lead shot.
It also carried 85000 litres of petrol as floating fluid instead of air as petrol doesn't compress.


check it out here.

Bathyscaphe Trieste - Wikipedia

I thought it would be a hard one to figure out.?????????????

It fascinated me as a child, I had a pic of it on my wall.

The pic of the Trieste was from a book I got for Christmas as a kid - some kind of engineering encyclopaedia IIRC. I took several pages out of it some years later and stuck them on my wall.

Be stuffed if I can remember exactly which book though...

Anyway, here's a bit of a pic. The exact image won't be on the net, but plenty like it will be.

Is it a cartridge loader? i.e. ammo?

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Is it a cartridge loader? i.e. ammo?

Nope, nothing to do with ammo or guns.

Coil spring compressor?

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

Coil spring compressor?

Nope.

Originally Posted by Homestar

inside the bathosphere of the first manned journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench? No Google, just what I remember - can't think of the name of it - something French I think,

Trieste?

DL