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My pimped version of a technical drawing of an old hydraulic system in an industrial building in my town, Antwerp, in Belgium. The building used to be an energy plant, but is nowadays a cultural center.

"Zuiderpershuis" means "South Press House".

The original image was a complicated black and white technical drawing and the people there asked me to do an update, to make it easier and more fun for kids to learn about the workings of the machine.

Black Staedtler pen 0.3, A4 paper size, colours in photoshop

Jangojim is my pseudonym as an artist

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actually I thought this was pretty interesting. You might know I love machines . For the people who like to go more into detail on how this works, I'll explain a bit more here.
It's the exact same system here in Antwerp that is used in London to open The London Bridge.

It's a simple, yet very clever hydraulic system that can be seen as the predecessor of an electricity network. The machine here was built somewhere in the 1800s and provided energy to make hundreds of machines work in the docks of Antwerp without having to use manpower.

on the right, clean water goes into a giant kettle that is being heated for 3 days before it reaches the right amount of pressure. From then on, workers need to keep the fire burning, adding coal that was brought there by train to a giant oven underneath, day and night.

The steam is captured and used to fuel the steam engine, comparable with a steam train. This one pumps water from the river through a complex plumbing system with a pressure pump and a giant weight on the left that floats on a very small amount of water.
When under pressure, liquids produce the same amount of pressure everywhere. Because of the weight, there's pressure on the water in the plumbing system that goes on for miles and miles underground. Whenever someone needs energy to make a bridge go up or crane lift something, they just open a little gate from the plumbing system to let water gush out. The hydraulic system here will take care of the loss of pressure somewhere else.

Everyone at the energy plant got paid a lot compared to other workers in the docklands. This was because there were a lot of strikes. The energy plant however could not afford one, because hundreds of machines in the docklands then would be out of power.

Hope that was informative to some of you

Description
My pimped version of a technical drawing of an old hydraulic system in an industrial building in my town, Antwerp, in Belgium. The building used to be an energy plant, but is nowadays a cultural center.

"Zuiderpershuis" means "South Press House".

The original image was a complicated black and white technical drawing and the people there asked me to do an update, to make it easier and more fun for kids to learn about the workings of the machine.

Black Staedtler pen 0.3, A4 paper size, colours in photoshop

Jangojim is my pseudonym as an artist

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actually I thought this was pretty interesting. You might know I love machines . For the people who like to go more into detail on how this works, I'll explain a bit more here.
It's the exact same system here in Antwerp that is used in London to open The London Bridge.

It's a simple, yet very clever hydraulic system that can be seen as the predecessor of an electricity network. The machine here was built somewhere in the 1800s and provided energy to make hundreds of machines work in the docks of Antwerp without having to use manpower.

on the right, clean water goes into a giant kettle that is being heated for 3 days before it reaches the right amount of pressure. From then on, workers need to keep the fire burning, adding coal that was brought there by train to a giant oven underneath, day and night.

The steam is captured and used to fuel the steam engine, comparable with a steam train. This one pumps water from the river through a complex plumbing system with a pressure pump and a giant weight on the left that floats on a very small amount of water.
When under pressure, liquids produce the same amount of pressure everywhere. Because of the weight, there's pressure on the water in the plumbing system that goes on for miles and miles underground. Whenever someone needs energy to make a bridge go up or crane lift something, they just open a little gate from the plumbing system to let water gush out. The hydraulic system here will take care of the loss of pressure somewhere else.

Everyone at the energy plant got paid a lot compared to other workers in the docklands. This was because there were a lot of strikes. The energy plant however could not afford one, because hundreds of machines in the docklands then would be out of power.

Hope that was informative to some of you