The workshops use the electric autogenous welding

Collection title

Memory of the Suez Canal

ID

BIB00017

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

1927

Production year

1927

Abstract

The archives of the Suez Canal provide a fundamental interest, both from the point of view of the history of technology and engineering (the Suez Canal was the first to have been dug by mechanical means), and that of the naval and economic history. The archive shows the oxy-acetylene welding of recently developed devices that allow the cutting of sheet iron under water. A test in a tank to train divers to cut sheet iron under water. The protection of hulls by the deposit of a metal layer is obtained using compressed air equipment.

Type

video

Production companies

• Association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal - Own production

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Period of events

• From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Port-Fouad

Original language

French

Media running time

2m43

Additional information

With the kind permission of the association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal.