Motion compensating ship personnel transfer gangway - GIF

[Toolmaker51]

I'm struck with a common reaction to Victorian Era patents, with year 1868, era now well underway. Regardless mechanical aspects, physical size, even feasibility; look at detail whose only function is to please the eye.
Key to this, with 1841 British colonization of Hong Kong, influenced addition of high detail to all manner of product, typified by Oriental design. This doesn't copy the figures as much as the concept, but point was to decorate in so much detail you figuratively never saw the same thing twice. It carried over into everything imaginable; a men's razor, cornice brackets of a roof overhang, hand tools, women's dress, drafting tables, rail dining cars, locomotives, you name it.
They may not realize it, also the clear foundation for current 'steam-punk' movement. Where a rusty iron-legged table all of a sudden goes for $600...Can't imagine clamor if this ship was built and now it's parts were available!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_decorative_arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era