"if you have a cold, it seems as if someone is hammering a chisel in your ears"
Quick 15-minute read while exploring the Liffey
Inventor Bindon Blood Stoney was Alan Turing's cousin
This Victorian diving bell built Dublin's port from the riverbed up, with workers descending in a metal box to dredge and dig from 1871 to the 1950s. Now it's Dublin's tiniest museum, free to explore with panels explaining the brutal work inside.
They recommend it:
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4.5
"if you have a cold, it seems as if someone is hammering a chisel in your ears"
Quick 15-minute read while exploring the Liffey
Inventor Bindon Blood Stoney was Alan Turing's cousin
This Victorian diving bell built Dublin's port from the riverbed up, with workers descending in a metal box to dredge and dig from 1871 to the 1950s. Now it's Dublin's tiniest museum, free to explore with panels explaining the brutal work inside.
They recommend it:
Google
(111)
4.5
What are you into?
- Victorian engineering marvel
- Free museum
- Docklands history
- Quick 15-minute stop
- Grand Canal Dock
- Dublin