The first walk under water

The pages of A guide to American wood planes Filled with biographies of those who ponder working in fierce professions, from music teachers in mail clerks. But I do not know that no other plan has a resume like Ebenezer Clifford, Architect, Master Diver, justice to the revival in the revolutionary war.

Born October 29, 1746 in a family carpenters, Clifford lived in the first half of his life in Kensington, New Hampshire. At the age he was 20, he was probably a well-known partner. A panel room said built in 1774 eventually bought the metropolitan Museum of Art, broken, and SHOW IN AMERICA WILL. (The New York Times It is called “one of the best examples of the first American launch of existence.”) To blast the revolutionary war in 1775, he enrolled in the 2nd new Hampshire Regiment and possibly engaged in boston siege. He served as quartermaster Sarhenant until he left the army in 1777.

Ebenezer Clifford Clifford Works on Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Photo: New England History.

When he arrived at home, he returned to work as a partner. In 1777, he built a staircase for a deerfield farmer, charging £ 1-8-0 for “my £ 2-9-0 for” Cornish (crowned molded coffee “in 1784 when working He as an among the staircase on the stairs in Governor John Langdon Mansion. . In 1788, he sold a “cherrytree” clock case, a “mahogany table on the table,” six seats, and an 18-inch “mahogany teaboard.” His remaining planes are all from this time. A local Blacksmith account books showed him bought more than 200 aircraft iron between 1772 and 1794.

Clifford moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1793, and began to focus on more than construction. (His personal library in time includes architectural books such as 1756 editions of Plans, researches, and sections, in houses and gentlemen.) He designed, or designed with founder Architect Bradbury Johnson, several buildings still standing. They both work as participants in the master for Phillips Exter Academy In 1794, Clifford was with £ 234-16-11. Clifford designed the building and Johnson designed Cupola. Both men are credited with planning the Church congregation in Exeter In 1798. Anyone Johnson or Clifford worked as a servant of the master for Samuel Siluy House in 1800. The known building whose design can be credited to Clifford is Atkinson Academyconstructed in 1803 when he was 57 years old.

This is around this time in Clifford’s interest opened to sub-marine exploration. He used a diving bell to save silver coins from the shipshire’s islands in the sea Hampshire at sea Hampshire at sea Hampshire at sea Hampshire in the sea Hampshire in the sea hampshire Hampshire at sea hampshire at sea hampshire at sea hampshire at sea hampshire. It doesn’t know what the coins are from, but the money is so long it is credited with the life of the sea. In 1803, Clifford and Richard Tripa at Dover tried to raise a sunken Gungadk (a type of sailing barge) at the Piscataqua River. They made 12 dives in their bell, hull wires in the shipment at 72 feet of water. Unfortunately, a ship collided with wiring, breaking barge’s hull.

An 18th century diving bell.

The rescue is a failure; They can only carry some iron bars from the ship’s shipment. But Clifford enjoyed his time underwater. Her chronic rheumatism is very improved with the added pressure at the bottom of the river he has walked six miles after a dive. The bell is 5-foot 9-inches long and 5 feet across the base, with two seats and one foot made from an anchor. With their signal buoy – a thorough size carved wooden swan – floating over it, men slowly lowered under 20 minutes. As they tried the bottom of the river, the fish gathered around them like “a crowd of chickens.”

In 1808, Clifford and Samuel Palmer Milton received approval from the state of Massachusetts to conduct Salvage operations at Pennebscot River where the British fell into 44 American ships During the revolutionary war. Palmer had no stranger to visit the bells. He did not successfully attempted to raise the river-shipment of Portsmouth river and a lake. For the next few years, they got “36 pieces of cannon, a brass what tons of cannon balls.” In 1810, the state paid the men of $ 2,078.84 for metal (about $ 53,700 today).

If Clifford began to work on Penobscot, Triph, his original partner in Diving, settled. Triple receives a patent (Diving Machines improvements, # 681) On April 1, 1806, for a wardrobe that gives air to a diving bell. In his case, he admitted Clifford using his invention. The result of the case is not known. Confused, a story runs in Boston Sentence In 1810 (and then also reprinted in Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina) newspapers) credit KlapiNot triple, due to inventing a repair (and) skilled bell of diving, a new construction. “Clifford may have been involved in rescue efforts after 1810. An article 1811 in a New York City newspaper described in continuing employment through a” Mr. Palmer “and” the bell owner of the bell of the diving “to raise the parts of the broken frigate to the British Hussar to the east river.

After many years of reduced health, Clifford died on October 10, 1821, at the age of 74. At the end of the fourth generation of the Cabinet the area sold. “His account includes this detail of the heart:” A farmer buys their old plane and supplies for fuel, many of about 100 years old with two horse wagons to get it at home. “

A bronze plane ribbon

This is the first time I saw this kind of a decoration of a plane, and I would love to know if anyone saw a similar thing. (You can answer this email or find other ways to contact me HERE.) It is made by Ohio Tool Co., with G. Baurmann, Louisville, Kentucky Mark. I don’t believe in Ohio’s honey offers a plane with copper decorations, so I think it’s worn by Baurmann.

Gustave Baurmann (1817-1884) is a Louisville, Kentucky, Hardware, Cutery, and Gun Dealer. He was born in Prussia and migrated to the United States as a young man. As a part of many hardware associations, later opened his own business – G. Baurmann & Co. – At the end of the civil covenant of Market St. In 1871. Louisville is at home in a large German community in the 1800s. Baurmann took an active part of it, including service as repository for the local opera house. He sells his business with Harvey, Girdler & Co. in 1872; Two years later he put his house for sale and traveled to Europe. The 1880 Federal Census lists six children in Baurmann, three girls and three boys, ages 9-20. Baurmann died in 1884 and was buried in Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemeterier.