Steeple jack risks life for safety Robert Burns, "Steeple Jack" and painter of lofty buildings, volunteered for a dangerous job in making motion pictures to teach safety. To show how accidents happen through thoughtlessness, he allowed himself to fall from the top of this high smoke stack. He was saved by ropes attached to springs fastened to his body
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01/01/1892
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Library of Congress
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