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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1937.
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
"I don't know why, but I always ent more than I intend
to. I'll have a piece of apple pie, if you will.”
The SAFETY LAMP
-TO-DAY
IN HISTORY-
How a Parson Risked His Life to Test It
By
CLAUD GOLDING
flame in a lantern made of wire admitted afterwards that he ought to gauze.
have prepared the miner for the shock,
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vised Davy to take out a patent for Buddie, e colliery engineer, ad-
his invention. Buddle WRI practical mon. He could sco of Davy refused to make money out of enormous value of the lamp. But
On January 9 Hodgson descended into the pit carrying with him The Rev. John Hodgson was one Davy lamp. What effect the intro- the ploncera who Influenced Sir saving the lives of miners,
NE hundred and twenty-one years duction of a light into the mine would Humphry Davy to produce his horses in my carriage," he said; "but
ngo to-day the Davy safely Iamp was first used in a cont-mine.
On January.0, 1010, the Rev. John Hodgson, Rector of Jarrow, New- častle-on-Tyne, received from Sir Humphry Davy two lamps, Davy wrote that he believed his Invention would solve the problem of illumina- tion in mines, but he had never really put the lamps to a test.
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Hodgson's satisfaction at the receipt of the lamps was unrestrained. Al- though he had been asked by Davy to take one of the lamps down minc and give it a practical test, he had such confidence, in the
Kreat Ecientist that he had Hulle-feur of the result. Hodgson knew, however, that there was a grave risk of ex- plosion if the lamp failed to net.
Up to this time minera, when working in foul air, used a steel mill adise of steel that was kept re- volving in contact with a piece or fint. This device was safe enough, but it gave little light.
Davy's scheme was to enclose the
Happiest Day in the ex-Kaiser's Life
Once
a man
T is like a tale from Hans Andersen..
a time upon dreamed, for half
his
life, the terrible nightmare dream that he was an Em-
peror.
Then he woke up, und discovered that he was no longer an Emperor
he was a Free Man.
is interesting as a psychological study, fent amounted to annihilation, andj The day the Kaiser woke up and now there was nothing to fear, for all lived was the day he fted into his fears had been realised, and with Holland. It was. Mr. Benson hints, their fulfilment came the tranquillity the hopplest day in his life. The that was attendent on unconditional Hates of Amerongen Castle clashed surrender. behind him, and he entered his first refuge in Holland.
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"Destiny had been cruel in ordain- "At last," says Mr. Benson in
ing that a man of his temper and book
recently published, "The Kaiser temperament should be Emperor of English Relations" (Longmans, reign he had never shown any grasp n great nation. Throughout his 16s.), "the War Lord felt safe, rubbed his hands together and said,
of the serious responsibilities of king- Now for a cup of real good English ship, never once, for all his sincere patriotism, had he rendered any true teLife as he had known it, since the heated to use his great abilities in service to his country, nor ever had days when he first realised his the cause of European disquiet. crippled arm, had been a campaign
con-
of defensive psychical corabat. AL- "It only Providence hand ways he had been driven by the secrated him to be a squire of ample Furies that presided over his pitiful means and estate just outside some nativity into concealing by smoke county town in England, what a of bombast the il-manned pleasant and useful existence 15
might have been." COM- Mr. Benson believes that he loved
screens
His name is Wilhelm Hohenzollern, fortress of his soul. and he lives in Holland, with one of. "Now all was over; he need the finest rose gardens in the world. pete, no more, and, above all, he England, but he felt that his love of Before the war he was Kaiser of need tremble no more at the machin- England had been repaid with scorn Germany.
ations of the encircling nations. Ite and mistrust, and he has said that he
E. Benson, the author, suggests had lost his crown, he was an exile lives at Doorn "by the vile Intrigues that this grandson of Queen Victorin in a foreign land, his personal de- of the British statesmen."
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Imagined. It appears, however, that century calamities in have had on the miners can be easily
"It might enable me to put four Up to the early years of the 10th the parson kept his experiment
the mines what could it nvall me to have it said to through fire-damp had himself.
been fre- that Sir Humphry drives his carrlage quent, but no
no one concerned with the and four?" an atmosphere of fire-damp with In Hebburn pit he walked about pits, or the profits they brought, con-
pidered it worth while the utmost courage. As he moved remedy the matter.
to try to from one point to another the lamp
Whilst Davy was working out his became full of blazing gas, but there to induceleft to a few humanitarians scheme of a minera' safety lamp, all
scientists to bestir
Hongkong, 17th April, 1940. them- other man was working on similar selves. was no explosion.
lines. He was George Stephenson, Then the most dramalle incident of In August, 1815, Sir Humphry then on unknown engineer the whole episorie occurred. Hodg- Davy Was travelling through Killingworth Colllery, near New- son wandered about swinging the Northumberland. His reputation as castle. lamp, holding it high and low, until a scientist was known all over Englis experiments he drew near a niner who worked and and, indeed, the Continent.
were purely mechanical and had nothing to do
'-up Capita Gray, rector of with the fact that a flame would not As the light from Hodgson's Jump possibility of relieving the danger tested two months later.
and examine the he evolved a safety lamp which was approached the miner looked up.
He saw what was apparently a from explosions in the mines.
With his son, Robert, then only a Horgson and colllery boy, and Nicholas Wood, a superiri- protection. The shock was almost engineer named Buddle, put Davy in tendent at Killingworth, Stephenson too much for him. "Put out the possession of the facts. It was the went down into the mine. Stephen-Li Koon Chun, Eaq, light," he roared.
Arst time his attention had been son was as courageous as Hodgson, P. K. Kwok, Pan, But when no attention was paid to drawn to circumstances under which whosee experiment took place three Wong Yun Tang, hey. Kan Ying Fo, Lat. hla cries and the glow came nearer the colllers worked.
months afterwards. не сате back to
London in thoughtful mood. After a series of "Advancing to the place of danger," experiments he found that a flame records a blographer would
not pass through minute Stephenson, "and entering into the Batavia
George Amor tubes. It thereupon occurred to him fouled air, itis lighted lamp in hand, Bombay that a
sheet of wire-gouze was he held it frmiy out, in
the full Canton equivalent in a series of tubes placed current of the blower, and within a In rows. He soon evolved a plan for few inches of its mouth.
Thus ex- encircling a flame with a cylinder of posed, the flame of the lamp first in- Kobe
It was a scientiae fact that increased, and then flickered and went Kowloon
but-there was no explosion of Londos flammable air could get through the gus. but Lussuch gaurd and bere outside the muze experiment with the first practical chaver busterior of talking and bake
become Ignited, but I and thus cause an explosion in the miner's safety lamp; and such mine.
then approved securilles, daring resolution of Its Inventor in rener and Fixed Deposits received for one Current Arenunts opened in, Local Car Davy wrote to Hodgson for a testing its valuable qualities." sample of fire damp.
ynar or shorter periods In Local and Foreign He had already Απ come to certain conclusions as
Improved
oved type of Stephenson's Currencies on terms which will be quoted result of reasoning, but had not put structed on that principle were und the lamp was successful, and lamps con-
on application.
his theory to practical test. He took Hodgson to be a comrade
KAN TONG ro. In the Killingworth Colliery. This When the fire damp arrived, and Jump was similar to that of Davy.
Chief Manager, with Incendiary inclinations.
he had experimented with it, he was Thus, both Sir Humphry Davy and The miner changed his tune. He satisfied that he had not made a mis-, George Stephenson must be given the gave up swearing and tried wheedling take
credit for inventing Instead. Surely, he thought, the man
ing the safety lamp. At the end of October 1815, Davy Both came to a similar with the light was madi
conclusion in
Mr. A. M. Abbas, of Messrs. A. ngain wrote to Hodgson and told him the end, but had approached the idea Grossart, and Miss Molly Midah de Hodgson made no reply. He moved the result of his experiments, and from different angles. nearer to the miner and halted with that he intended to make a lamp.
Sa, were married last night according in a few paces. Then the workman
In 1810 and 1817 there was much to Mohamedan riles by the Mult This letter read at could see who it was, for Hodgson at Newcastle and caused a sensation. celve the credit of discovering the in Leighton Hill Road. The bride
public meeting controversy as to who should
Noor Shah at Mrs. Abbas's residence was well known and respected among The Royal Society were no less im safety the pitment.
pressed when he gave them the re- Stephenson, scientists were on
lamp. Unfortunately
the only daughter of Mrs, de Sa There was a smile of triumph on sult of his researches.
of Sharp Street Enst und sister the
of the face of the parson, who, however,
side of Davy.
Mr. Henry de Sn, of the Astatic The first Davy lamp was placed in was somewhat conselence-stricken at the Museum of Practical Geology in his claim.
Stephenson was too modest to push Afth son of the late Mr. A. R. Abbas Petroleum Co. The bridegroom is the having given the man a fright. He Jermyn-street, Piccadilly, London,
Thus Davy has always and Mrs. Abbas. been known as the ploncer.
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