NOVEL USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2353, 22 July 1886, Page 2

NOVEL USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

A singular use to* made By means of the electric light near Paris recently. Sortie time ago several minerg were entombed by a heavy, fall of earth near Paris. Their fellow laborers dug xnd dug with almost superhuman e&jts to extricate thom : ; but at the end offlSe week, when all Hope of .resouing any of them alive had died away, it was found, after a survey of the .situation, that nearly two months must elapse before the poor fellows could be reached. The women of the district, however, refused to bo comforted,- and those who had relations in. the mine,which had thus, collapsed insisted upon the weary work being pushed forward as rapidly si, possible.,. It struck some -scientist, who. was an amateur it would-be possible to obtain a piofcure of tho aofcual spot.whorevfe men- wer» buried. A.boring was .therefore made, and a small camera placed at the end of a series of steel rods. Ip. the camera was a dry plato, and near it an apparatus for giving out electric'light.;- : ; TJjjoamera was pushed through the opiPg, the electric light'flashed on. and the plate exposed. On boing enlarged it gave t, dreadfully pathetic picture of tho scene in the heart of the mine, .showing that each of tho sufferers was dead.... Thu popular feeling atonoe quieted down, and was at once succeeded by the resignation whioh providentially soothes'iii whea ■ vre bow the worst. .<. ut to