Complex sentence: This approach had been suggested but not tried in 1854, it sought to reduce the cost and effort involved in pumping water and raising ore to the surface only to lower it down again using the incline to Comberow.
Split into simpler sentences: This approach had been suggested but not tried in 1854. It sought to reduce the cost and effort involved in pumping water and raising ore to the surface only to lower it down again using the incline to Comberow.