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The History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 4: 1913–1946: The Political Economy of Decline (1988) excerpt and text search; William Ashworth and Mark Pegg. History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 5: 1946–1982: The Nationalized Industry (1986) Heinemann, Margot. Britain's coal: A study of the mining crisis (1944). Jaffe, James Alan.
The Hottinguer coal mine was one of the main collieries of the Épinac coal mine.The buildings, raised between 1872 and 1876, housed a revolutionary atmospheric extraction system: a piston moving in a 558 m-high tube, machined in Le Creusot (an original technique by engineer Zulma Blanchet), rather than by traditional cables, which at the time were unable to descend to such depths (over 600 m ...
Coal Miners' Pocketbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.: covering every aspect of coal mining and related aspects of engineering, with topics ranging from stoping to mine safety and rescue to mine railways and coal breakers. Greenwell, George Clementson (1888). A Glossary of Terms Used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham. London ...
A coal mine mantrip at Lackawanna Coal Mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania Coal miners exiting a winder cage at a mine near Richlands, Virginia in 1974 Surface coal mining in Wyoming, U.S. A coal mine in Frameries, Belgium. Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.
The History of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies. It became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was primarily used to power steam engines, heat buildings and generate electricity.
In 1810, 176,000 short tons of bituminous coal, and 2,000 tons of anthracite coal, were mined in the United States. American coal mining grew rapidly in the early 1820s, doubling or tripling every decade. Anthracite mining overtook bituminous coal mining in the 1840s; from 1843 through 1868, more anthracite was mined than bituminous coal.
The economics of coal mining (1928). Fine, B. The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (1990). Galloway, R.L. Annals of coal mining and the coal trade. First series [to 1835] 1898; Second series. [1835–80] 1904. Reprinted 1971; Galloway, Robert L. A History Of Coal Mining In ...
Coal mining in the area on a small scale dates back to medieval times. Until the seventeenth century coal was commonly extracted from open-workings on outcrops where the coal seam was near to the surface. One of the last places to utilise this method was in Wednesbury. The eighteenth century saw open-cast coal mining replaced by underground pits.