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THE HONGKONG ·· TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1937.

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"I don't know why, but I always cat more than I intend to. I'll have a piece of apple pie, if you will."

The SAFETY LAMP

How a Parson

By

CLAUD GOLDING

-TO-DAY-

IN HISTORY-

Risked His Life to Test It

Name In a lantern made, of wire admitted afterwards that he ought to have prepared the miner for the shock.

gauze.

velves.

his

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Buddle, the colliery engineer, ad- vised Davy to take out a patent for

invention Buddle was On January, 9 Hodgson descended

practical man. I could see the into the pit carrying with him

enormous value of the lamp, But Davy lamp. What effect the intro- the pioneers

The Rev. John Hodgson was one of Davy refused to make money out of

who influenced. Sir. ONE

NE hundred and twenty-one years duction of a light into the mine would tumphry Davy to produce his lamp, saving the lives of miners.

ngo to by the Davy safety imagined. It appears, however, that century calamities in

have had on the miners can be caully Up to the early years of the 19th horses in my carriage," he said: "but "It might enable me to put four Jamp was first used in a coal-mine. the parson kept his experiment

the mites what could it avail me to have it said to through fire-damp hnd himself.

been fre- that Sir Humphry drives his earringe On January 8, 1816, the Rev. John

quent, but no one concerned with the and Tour?" In Hebburn plt he walked about pits, or the profits they brought, con- Hodgson, Rector of Jarrow. New in an atmosphere of fire-damp with sidered it worth while castle-on-Tyne, received. from Sir the utmost courage. As he moved remedy the matt few humaniterions scheme of a miners' safety lamp, n-

to try to matter. Humphry Davy two lamps. Davy from one point to another the lamp

Whilst Davy was working out his It Was wrote that he believed his invention became full of blazing gas, but there to induce scientists to bestir them- other man was working on similar would solve the problem of illumina- was no explosion. tion in mines, but he bad never really

lines. He was George Stephenson, lisen Dr. unknown put the lamps to a test.

engineer at the whole episoxie occurred. Hodg Davy SUDA travelling through

near New- Hodgson's satisfaction at the receipt lamp, holding it high and low, until a scientist was known all over Eng

son wandered about swinging the Northumberland, lis reputation as castle, of the lamps was unrestrained. Al-

Ilis experiments he drew near a miner who worked land and, indeed, the Continent.

were purely mechanical and had nothing to do to take one of the lampa down

A certain

Gray, rector of with the fact that a flame would not mine and give it a practical test, he of a steel mill.

As the light from flodgson's lamp stay in Newcastle and examine the he evolved safety amp which was approached the miner jocked up.. possibility of relieving the danger

tested wa

months Inter. He saw what was apparently from

explosions in the mines.

With his son, Robert, then only a candle whose flame burned without

Mr. Hodgson ned calllery boy, and Nicholas Wood, a superin 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-i light," he roared.

first time his attention had been so was as courageous us Hodgson, But when no attention was paid to drawn to circumstances under which whosce experiment took place three his cries and the glow came nearer the colliers, worked.

months afterwards. He came back to London in thoughtful mood. After a series of "Advancing to the pince of danger," experiments he found that a flame records would

Dr.

though he had been asked by Davy laboriously by the indiferent glato-Wearmouth, implored him to pass through gauze. In August 1915,

a

lind such confidence in Bie great scientist that he had little fear of the result. Hodgson know. however, that there was a grave risk of ex- plosion if the lamp falled to get.

Up to this time. miners, when working in fou) air, used a steel mili → dise 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

a

man

Is interesting as a psychologient study, feat amounted to annihilation, and The day the Kalser woke up and now there was nothing to fear, for all lived was the day he fled into his fears had been reniised, and with Holland, It was, Mr. Benson hints, their fullment came the tranquillity the happiest day in his life. The that was attendant on unconditional gates of Amerongen Castle clashed surrender. behind him, and he entered his frat refuge in Holland,

"Destiny had been cruel in ordnin- T is like tale from

ing that a man of his femper and "At last," says Mr. Benson in. tempernment should be Emperor of book recently published, "The Katser Hans Andersen.

great Once and English Relations" (Longmans, reign he had never shown any grasp nation. Throughout his 168.), "the War Lord felt safe; he of the serious responsibilities of king time a upon a

rabbed his meds together and said, ship, never onec, for all his sincere dreamed, for half his 'Now for a cup of real good English patriotism, had he rendered any true

tea, life, the terrible nightmare Life as he had known it, since the he failed to use his great abilities in service to his country, nor ever had dream that he was an Em- days when he Brat realised his the cause of European disquiet.

crippled arm, had been a campaign of defensive psychical combat. Al- "If only Providence had ways he had been driven by the secrated him to be a squire of ample nativity into concealing by smoice only town in England, what a Furies that presided over his pitiful means and estate just outside some

existence screens of bombast the ill-manned pleasant and useful

19 This name is Wilhelm Hohenzollern, fortress of his soul.

might have been." and he lives in Holland, with one of "Now all was over; he need com- the finest ruse gardens in the world. pete

Mr. Benson believes that he loved no_more, and, above all be England, but he felt that-his-love-of Before the war he was Kaiser of need tremble no more of the machin- England had been repaid with scorn Germany.

ations of the eneireling nutions. He and mistrust, and he has said that he

peror.

Then he woke up, and discovered that he was no longer at Emperor

he was a Free Man.

con-

E. F. Benson, the author, suggests had lost his crown, he was an exile lives at Doorn "by the vile intrigues that this grandson of, Queen Victoria in a foreign land, his personal de- of the British statesmen."

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John Earl St. Vincent (Admiral

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blographier of George Amoy not pass through minute Stephenson, and entering into the Dataris tubes. It thereupon eccurred to him fottled air, his lighted lamp in hand,

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uch was the result of the first) could not come outside the gauze experiment with the Arst practical and thus cause an explosion in the miner's safety inmp;, and such mine.

the daring resolution of its inventor in Davy wrote to Hodgson for a testing its valuable qualities." sample of fire damp. He had already come to certain conclusions as the lamp was successful, and lamps con- An Improved type of Stephenson's result of reasoning, but had not put structed on that principic were used his theory to a practical test.

in the Killingworth He took Hodgson to be a comrade

Colliery. This When the are damp arrived, and lamp was similar to that of Davy. with incendiary inclinailons,

he had experimented with it, he was gave up sweating und tried wheedling take.

The miner changed his line. He satisfied that he had not innde a mis- George Stephenson must be given the Thus, both Sir Ifumphry Davy and instead. Surely, he thought, the tran

credit for inventing the safety lamp. with the light was mad

At the end of October 1815. Davy Both came to a similar conclusion in Hodgson made no reply. He moved the result of his experiments, and from different angles.

again wrote to Hodgson arid told liim the end, but had approached the idea nearer to the miner and halted with that he intended to make a lamp. In 181 in n few paces. Then the workman

1816 and 1817 there was much This letter read at a public meeting controversy as to who should could see who it was, for Hodgson at Newcastle and caused sensation. ceive the credit of discovering was well known and respected among The Royal Society were no less im safety Jamp. Unfortunately the pitmen.

pressed when he gave them the re- Stephenson, scientists were on There was a smile of triumph on suit of his researches. the face of the parson, who, however,

side of Davy. was somewhat conscience-stricken at the Museum of Practical Geology in his claim. Thus Davy has always The first Davy lamp was placed in Stephenson was too modest to pusti having given the mon a fright. He Jermyn-alreet, Piccadilly, London. been known as the pioneer.

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