‘Heat in Mines’
Date
1837
Creator
Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796 - 1855, British) , Geologist
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Material
Dimensions
height (page): 327mm
width (page): 206mm
height (drawing): 194mm
width (drawing): 100mm
width (page): 206mm
height (drawing): 194mm
width (drawing): 100mm
Subject
Description
Sketch of an imaginary mechanism for measuring heat in mines, featuring six miners, three suspended in a mining shaft, in various stages of undress, and three lowering them.
The associated text explains that with this method, ‘the miners are told that when they feel they have too much clothing on, they are to take as much off as will render them comfortable. By these means it is found that the heat in mines gradually increases with the depth […]’ Inscribed ‘Heat in mines’ above.
Segment from ‘The Mining Chronicle’, a spoof newspaper featuring lampoons of the Cornish mining and railway industries and the work of Robert Were Fox, created by Henry de la Beche. Item 124 in MS/710, a volume of Fox’s correspondence.
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796-1855), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819.
Robert Were Fox (1789 - 1877), British geologist and physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
The associated text explains that with this method, ‘the miners are told that when they feel they have too much clothing on, they are to take as much off as will render them comfortable. By these means it is found that the heat in mines gradually increases with the depth […]’ Inscribed ‘Heat in mines’ above.
Segment from ‘The Mining Chronicle’, a spoof newspaper featuring lampoons of the Cornish mining and railway industries and the work of Robert Were Fox, created by Henry de la Beche. Item 124 in MS/710, a volume of Fox’s correspondence.
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796-1855), British geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819.
Robert Were Fox (1789 - 1877), British geologist and physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1848.
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