NEW DETECTOR FOR FIRE DAMP
Fire-damp is the great enemy of the collier, and it is peculiarly insidious, inasmuch as it collects without giving anv si<>n to the. senses of its presence. Manv attempts hove lx-en made to devise, a reliable detector, and it .is interesting to learn that very promising experiments have bron carried out by the British Ministry of Mines with a new term of instrument for (his purpose. This instrument relies for its operation upon the expansion of liquid in a glass tube. It is now undergoing extensive trials underground, and the. final result will be awaited with keen interest.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 6
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103NEW DETECTOR FOR FIRE DAMP Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 26, 25 October 1921, Page 6
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