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Instruction on the uses of the Davy lamp to all colliers Should any of these questions come home to you, let the impression be lasting. Explain to your children and your waggoners the nature and use of the lamp, as well as its abuse, and the consequences. Prize it as the sole means of enabling you to pursue your daily work, with respect to your greatest danger and examine it before you go to work with as much anxiety and interest you would by the rope by which you descend. And finally, fail not daily to pray to God's blessing on your perilous labour's, without which no human intervention can avail. This was written in the confident hope that their attentive perusal might be the means of averting, in some degree, those awful explosions, the effects of which deprived many of you of kindred and friends. A friend to the working colliers. *Discovered 1815 ^ The gauze of the lamp commonly used contains about twenty -six apertures in the length of one inch, or 676 in the square. Extract from the Royal Commission on Children in the mines, 1842. Oldham District. |
