PHILIPP DEIDESHEIMER
Inventor
Born 1832

Darmstadt, Hesse While working in Virginia City on the Comstock Lode, mining engineer Philipp Deidesheimer devised a method of timbering mines that would shore up the walls so miners could work safely at any width, depth or length. His system consisted of building up square sets of timber in a way that made them as compact as honeycomb cells and capable of being extended in all directions.

This system was applied to shafts with ore bodies twenty feet wide or more.