| 1. | The men had attempted to seal their makeshift brattice with their clothing.
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| 2. | Early collieries sometimes only had one pit which was divided by a brattice.
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| 3. | Sparks from the wooden brattice sheets.
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| 4. | To restart some ventilation a cloth brattice was rigged from the surface down to the work area.
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| 5. | Rescuers pierced the brattice, and encountered " a view which appalled the stoutest heart among them.
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| 6. | Underground however, brattices remained vitally important for directing the current of air throughout the whole of the colliery.
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| 7. | Ventilation was by the bratticed split-shaft furnace method and so there was no fan engine for ventilation.
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| 8. | Water was piped into the mine from a nearby brook, allowing the Bureau crews to extinguish fires and erect brattices.
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| 9. | Where this is the case a steel wall called a Brattice is installed between the two compartments to separate the air flow.
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| 10. | Rather than bratticing one shaft, it was more convenient to use one shaft as the upcast pit and the other as the downcast pit.
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