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Side viii
... ACCIDENTS OCCA- SIONED THEREBY . SMALL EXPLOSIONS OF FIRE - DAMP BECOME FREQUENT CHAPTER VIII . INADEQUACY OF THE WATER - RAISING MACHINERY . INVENTION OF THE STEAM - ENGINE 68 76 CHAPTER IX . STATE OF MINING AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF viii ...
... ACCIDENTS OCCA- SIONED THEREBY . SMALL EXPLOSIONS OF FIRE - DAMP BECOME FREQUENT CHAPTER VIII . INADEQUACY OF THE WATER - RAISING MACHINERY . INVENTION OF THE STEAM - ENGINE 68 76 CHAPTER IX . STATE OF MINING AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF viii ...
Side 68
... miners were usually ascribed to the supernatural 889 68 A HISTORY OF COAL MINING [ CHAP . VII . CHAPTER VII NOXIOUS GASES PREVALENT IN THE MINES ACCIDENTS OCCA- SIONED THEREBY SMALL EXPLOSIONS OF FIRE-DAMP BECOME FREQUENT.
... miners were usually ascribed to the supernatural 889 68 A HISTORY OF COAL MINING [ CHAP . VII . CHAPTER VII NOXIOUS GASES PREVALENT IN THE MINES ACCIDENTS OCCA- SIONED THEREBY SMALL EXPLOSIONS OF FIRE-DAMP BECOME FREQUENT.
Side 70
... accident which was probably due to the presence of this gas occurred in the year 1662 , when seven or eight men and one woman were suffocated through their going into an old working , or waste , in Lord Sinclair's colliery at Dysart ...
... accident which was probably due to the presence of this gas occurred in the year 1662 , when seven or eight men and one woman were suffocated through their going into an old working , or waste , in Lord Sinclair's colliery at Dysart ...
Side 71
... accident from this cause is that contained in the register of St. Mary's church , Gateshead - on - Tyne , where , under date 14th October , 1621 , is recorded the interment of " Richard Backas , burn'd in a pit . " We next hear of fire ...
... accident from this cause is that contained in the register of St. Mary's church , Gateshead - on - Tyne , where , under date 14th October , 1621 , is recorded the interment of " Richard Backas , burn'd in a pit . " We next hear of fire ...
Side 88
... accident occurred at three o'clock in the morning on the 18th of August , 1708 . The fire discharged itself at the mouths of three shafts " with as great a noise as the firing of cannons , or the loudest claps of thunder , " and sixty ...
... accident occurred at three o'clock in the morning on the 18th of August , 1708 . The fire discharged itself at the mouths of three shafts " with as great a noise as the firing of cannons , or the loudest claps of thunder , " and sixty ...
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