A History of Coal Mining in Great BritainMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 273 sider |
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Side 4
... known , in contradistinction to charcoal , to which the name coal was originally applied . Conditions peculiarly favourable to the early working of coal existed on the sea coast of Northumberland , and on the shores of the Frith of ...
... known , in contradistinction to charcoal , to which the name coal was originally applied . Conditions peculiarly favourable to the early working of coal existed on the sea coast of Northumberland , and on the shores of the Frith of ...
Side 6
... known that the burning of lime was one of the earliest uses to which mineral coal was applied . At almost exactly the same date , at all events as early as the year 1236 , we find the monks of New- minster Abbey , near Morpeth in ...
... known that the burning of lime was one of the earliest uses to which mineral coal was applied . At almost exactly the same date , at all events as early as the year 1236 , we find the monks of New- minster Abbey , near Morpeth in ...
Side 37
... known on the Continent , had not yet been introduced into England . Among these improvements were new forms of furnaces which appear to have been introduced from Germany and Hungary by one Henry Wright about 1610 , in which year a ...
... known on the Continent , had not yet been introduced into England . Among these improvements were new forms of furnaces which appear to have been introduced from Germany and Hungary by one Henry Wright about 1610 , in which year a ...
Side 43
... known as " the great May - day flood " —an event which occasioned great joy to the rival ironmasters . Dudley , however , set about repairing his works and recom- menced making iron ; but so loud were the complaints of its bad quality ...
... known as " the great May - day flood " —an event which occasioned great joy to the rival ironmasters . Dudley , however , set about repairing his works and recom- menced making iron ; but so loud were the complaints of its bad quality ...
Side 54
... known then in these parts as the art to bore with iron rods to try the deep- ness and thickness of the coal ; rare engines to draw water out of the pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coals from the pits to the staiths at the ...
... known then in these parts as the art to bore with iron rods to try the deep- ness and thickness of the coal ; rare engines to draw water out of the pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coals from the pits to the staiths at the ...
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