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Show OWED SUCCESS TO CHANCE Accidental Discovery Enabled Man to Build Machine That Simplified Diamond Separation. A young man In the Kimberley diamond dia-mond mines had been experimenting for months in an effort to find a way to separate diamonds from other stones so as to eliminate the tiresome, tedious, hand-picking process. His efforts ef-forts and labors had all been in vain, but he refused to be discouraged and adhered to his purpose. One day he was working at his bench when a small diamond and a garnet happened to be lying on a board before him. . In some way he tipped the board at such an angle that the two stones rolled together toward to-ward the edge. It happened that there was a small grease spot on the board, and when thje diamond reached It. it was stopped and held, while the garnet gar-net passed on and fell over the edge. Wondering whether' this had been a mere accident or whether the grease possessed the peculiar property of attracting at-tracting diamonds and allowing other stones to pass over it, he tried again and again with the first diamond and with various others and "ound that if a iard wore coated with grease and vibrfpti slightly while held in an inclined in-clined position the diamonds placed on it would be caught and held by the grease, while all of the ether stones would roll off. He at once, set to work and as a result of his accidental discovery dis-covery soon built a machine which was a success from the very beginning. begin-ning. In a short time it was doing all of the work that had formerly been cone by hand, saving considerable time and expense in the operation. Pathfinder. |
