The Hunt for Earth Gravity by John Milsom

Author:John Milsom
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

All that could usefully be done was identify a suitable site for the measurements and erect a shelter in preparation for the spring, when scientific work would at last became possible. Even that was attended by disaster.

The matting with which the outer walls were covered accidentally caught fire, and notwithstanding the endeavours of the persons who were present, the fire was communicated rapidly to the roof; it was fortunately extinguished by the exertions of the officers and men from the ships, before the clocks or any part of their apparatus had received injury …. an artilleryman … in his anxiety to place the instruments out of danger, exposed his hands incautiously, and was in consequence so severely frost bitten, as to render necessary the amputation of three fingers of the left hand, and two of the right.6

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