THE USEFUL UMBRELLA
When painters were called in to work on the 70 feet steel smokestack of a power plant in a mid-western State of the United States, they found that no ladder had been install-ed to provide a means of reaching the top. An ordinary umbrella, hastily pressed into service solved their problem. With a light cord attached to its handle, the opened umbrella was thrust through the soot door at the base of the staclc, 9 feet in diameter. Warm gases from the boilers created a powerful upward draft and swept the umbrella up the stack and out the top. Here, deprived 'of its lifting foi'ce, the umbrella slid to earth, still trailing its cord. A stror.g rope was then attached to the cord, and was carefully hauled through. With this aid a steeplejack was able to gain the top of the stack from the outside, and to fasten his temporaiv rig there.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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155THE USEFUL UMBRELLA Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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