Everyone on Orchid has a method of viewing their jewellery at their
bench’s, right? They use fluorescent lighting, again. right? Well,
what did the jewellers use long before these lights came into
existance? Any ideas? My teacher told me this little piece of
English history a few years ago and I want to pass this to you all,
now!
Forget the electric light method, how about having on your table-top
bench a little candle shining to your bench-peg. This will give only
1 candle power of light (obviously)! Now how are you going to
increase this candle power to have you work late at night? What did
these innovative thinking folks do? They put that candle behind a
beaker of water, simple process, right! Then the light was magnified
and increased towards and shone to their own bench. Now they could
work all night if they had to, till the Sun rose again in the
morning! We take so much for granted, but few of us actually know
what life was like in those earlier days of our profession. To
appreciate today, we should understand what happened to our
forefathers way back then!
…Gerry!
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