Coal and the Coal Mines
by Homer Greene
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About this eBook
- Author
- Greene, Homer, 1853-1940
- Title
- Coal and the coal mines
- Original Publication
- United States: Houghton, Mifflin and Company,1889,pubdate 1898.
- Credits
- Donald Cummings with images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TN: Technology: Mining engineering, Metallurgy
- Subject
- Coal mines and mining
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69134
- Release Date
- October 11, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.COAL AND THE COAL MINES
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.PREFACE.
- 7.CONTENTS.
- 8.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 9.CHAPTER I. IN THE BEGINNING.
- 10.CHAPTER II. THE COMPOSITION OF COAL.
- 11.CHAPTER III. WHEN COAL WAS FORMED.
- 12.CHAPTER IV. HOW THE COAL BEDS LIE.
- 13.CHAPTER V. THE DISCOVERY OF COAL.
- 14.CHAPTER VI. THE INTRODUCTION OF COAL INTO USE.
- 15.CHAPTER VII. THE WAY INTO THE MINES.
- 16.CHAPTER VIII. A PLAN OF A COAL MINE.
- 17.CHAPTER IX. THE MINER AT WORK.
- 18.CHAPTER X. WHEN THE MINE ROOF FALLS.
- 19.CHAPTER XI. AIR AND WATER IN THE MINES.
- 20.CHAPTER XII. THE DANGEROUS GASES.
- 21.CHAPTER XIII. THE ANTHRACITE COAL BREAKER.
- 22.CHAPTER XIV. IN THE BITUMINOUS COAL MINES.
- 23.CHAPTER XV. THE BOY WORKERS AT THE MINES.
- 24.CHAPTER XVI. MINERS AND THEIR WAGES.
- 25.GLOSSARY OF MINING TERMS.
- 26.INDEX.
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