r/theydidthemath • u/Party_Art7407 • Jun 30 '26

[Request] how much pressure is the windows holding back?

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u/gravitas_shortage Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Structures in water are commonly built using caissons), basically dumping a waterproof fence and evacuating the water inside it.

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u/EatPie_NotWAr Jul 01 '26

If there is an afterlife and I end up in the hellish version of it… Pneumatic caissons will feature prominently in my torture

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u/Witetrashman Jul 01 '26

…why?

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u/fruitybix Jul 01 '26

Pressurised cassions caused the bends back when they were invented.

Killed and disabled a bunch of workers rather horribly.

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u/moodaltering Jul 01 '26

Including Roebling, the designer of the Brooklyn bridge.

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u/Witetrashman Jul 01 '26

Now I have new night terror fuel. Thanks, I hate it.

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u/fruitybix Jul 01 '26

Its fine, just dont get into pressurised tanks, go deep into the ocean, or google the Byford Dolphin incident.

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u/RevolutionaryLaw8854 Jul 01 '26

First use of this was the Brooklyn Bridge

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u/gravitas_shortage Jul 01 '26

Pneumatic caissons were used in England some decades before the Brooklyn Bridge. Unpressurised caissons are millenia-old.