| Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 512 pages
...situation of the gas. Instead of creeping inch by inch with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain...accidents which happened to the most experienced and cautious miners, is completely developed ; and this has hitherto been in a great measure matter of... | |
| Sir Humphry Davy - Coal mines and mining - 1825 - 174 pages
...situation of the gas. Instead of creeping inch by inch with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain its presence, we walk firmly on with the safe lamps, and with the utmost confidence prove the actual state of the mine. By observing attentively... | |
| Stephen Glover - Derbyshire (England) - 1831 - 510 pages
...contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain its ргesэпсe, we walk firmly on with the safety lamps, and, with the utmost confidence, prove the actual...accidents which happened to the most experienced and cautious miners, is completely developed ; and this has hitherto been in a great measure matter of... | |
| John Davy - 1836 - 436 pages
...situation of the gas. Instead of creeping inch by inch with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain its presence, we walk firmly on with the safe lamps, and with the utmost confidence prove the actual state of the mine. By observing attentively... | |
| James Raine - 1857 - 426 pages
...all impaired. Instead of creeping inch by inch with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain its presence, we walk firmly on with tho safety-lamps, and with the utmost confidence prove the actual state of the mine.'' This is an admirable... | |
| Coal mines and mining - 1875 - 762 pages
...presence, we walk boldly forward with the safety-lamp, and with the utmost confidence prove the art u.-il state of the mine. By observing attentively the several...flame of the lamp, in an examination of this kind, the causes of accidents which happened to the most experienced and cautious miners is completely developed,... | |
| Andrew Roy - Coal mines and mining - 1876 - 436 pages
...of the gas. Instead of creeping, inch by inch, with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain its presence, we walk boldly forward with the safetylamp, and with the utmost confidence prove the actual state of the mine.... | |
| W B. Kemshead - 1881 - 304 pages
...situation of the gas. Instead of creeping inch by inch with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp in order to ascertain its presence, we walk firmly on with the safety lamp, and with the utmost confidence prove the actual state of the mine. By observing attentively... | |
| Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1896 - 256 pages
...situation of the gas. Instead of creeping inch by inch with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain its presence, we walk firmly in with the safe lamps, and with the utmost confidence prove the actual state of the mine. By observing... | |
| Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1896 - 282 pages
...situation of the gas. Instead of creeping inch by inch with a candle, as is usual, along the galleries of a mine suspected to contain fire-damp, in order to ascertain its presence, we walk firmly in with the safe lamps, and with the utmost confidence prove the actual state of the mine. By observing... | |
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