Mine Rescue Work And Organization PDF Download

Excerpt from Mine Rescue Work and Organization In commending this book to both learners and learned in what is called Mine "Rescue" work as a ready means of reference to the general state of knowledge of the subject, I would like to take the opportunity of impressing on all concerned, how important it still remains that all the ordinary means of seeking access to and exploring a mine after any accident, or in case of need, should be intelligently used and exhausted before any call is made upon such jeopardous appliances as breathing dresses in poisonous gases. There is no better method, for instance, of recovering a mine after an explosion than the old-fashioned way of taking in fresh breathable air, carefully tested by the small bird and safety lamp, and resort should only be made to the breathing dress, worn by an expert, when a well-defined purpose appears which can be described in terms of locality and distance. It should be as rare that men should be required to dive into bad air in a breathing dress, as it is to dive into water in a similar appliance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.