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Such was Stephenson’s theory when he proceeded to embody his idea of a miner’s safety-lamp in a practical form. In the month of August, 1815, he requested his friend Nicholas Wood, the head viewer, to prepare a drawing of a lamp according to the description which he gave him. After several evenings’ careful deliberations, the drawing was made, and shown to several of the head men about the works.
Possibly with a miner’s dress over my ordinary clothing, and with plenty of exercise, there was enough to counteract the effects of the chill air. But our eyes began to ache at the uncertain light, and we all straggled irregularly along the smooth cut shaft level for another sixty feet, and so reached the Konhauser-rolle, the fourth slide we had encountered in our progress.
One gulden-schein—about tenpence—is the regulated fee. Our full titles having been duly put down in the register, each of us was furnished with a miner’s costume, and, so habited, off we set. We started from a point that is called the Obersteinberghauptstollen; our guides only having candles, one in advance, the other in the rear.
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