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Hayes, Geoffrey

 
9780747804345: Coal Mining: No. 3 (Shire Library)
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ISBN 10: 0747804346 ISBN 13: 9780747804345
Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2000

Sinopsis

This book tells how mines evolved from simple bell pits into extensive networks of shafts and tunnels and extending deep underground. It describes the methods used to drive tunnels through the rock and the machines that were developed to cut the coal. It explains how the coal was transported from the coalface to the shaft, a task performed variously by women or children with sleds of baskets, pit ponies, rope haulage systems, conveyors and locomotives, and it describes the winding engines used to lower men and equipment into the mine and to bring them and the coal back to the surface.

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Acerca del autor

As a boy, Geoffrey Hayes was enthralled by stories of beam engines told by his two grandfathers. His father, as a new starter in a cotton mill, mopped the floor of an 1857 beam engine house every Saturday morning. A gift of Robert H. Thurston's book 'A History of the Steam Engine' intensified the interest in beam engines. Pilgrimages were made to Cornwall to see the surviving engines at he tin mines. Mr Hayes became involved professionally with the restoration of the Leicester beam engines and the Caprington Colliery engine in the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

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Editorial
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0747804346
ISBN 13 
9780747804345
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
32
Contacto del fabricante
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