The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 132
as fastened to the belt round hiswaist and to a pin driven into the base of the chimney; this rope was,of course, payed out to him at each step as he ascended. It was alsointended, in order to prevent the possibility of accident, that a cordshould be fastened to the belt and then passed round the… … Fig. 12. Including a bonus of £5 to George Wilson, the man employed toexecute the work, the whole cost of these repairs was uuder £13. George Wilson is a native of Belfast, and since the repair of Messrs.Coupers chimney, has practised the method described, as a sort oftrade, and he has already…
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