Warm Work | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 37.

Warm Work.

INVESTIGATION shows that the limit of temperature at which men can work depends upon the length of their exposure, the amount of exertion they put forth, their condition, and the nature of the atmosphere, particularly as to its degrees of moisture. It is stated that men have been employed on railways at one hundred and four degrees; in mines, under very favorable conditions, at one hundred and twenty-five degrees; and are said to work occasionally in the stoke hole of tropical steamers at one hundred and fifty-six degrees.

Professor Dubois is reported to have estimated that a temperature of one hundred and twenty-two degrees can be endured when the air is as dry as possible, but that even one hundred and four degrees is likely to be fatal in an atmosphere saturated with moisture. It is also considered certain that men cannot become accustomed to stand for any considerable time a higher temperature than from one hundred and forty-five degrees to one hundred and sixty-five degrees, even when they keep perfectly still and are in quite pure air.—Sel.