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Index

In this section are reprints from historical documents that provide background information into the "art" of coal mining.

Article   Year   Topic covered
Huskar Disaster   1838   26 children drowned in a Pit Disaster
     
Children's Employment
Commission
  1842   Parliamentary Report into the employment of children in the mines.
     
A Treatise on the
Working and Winning
of Collieries
  1848   by Matthias Dunn
     
School Rules   1861   Rules and Regulations of the Seghill Colliery Schools
     
Mining Occupations   var.   A brief enumeration of the employments, and a few technical terms peculiar to coal-miners
     
The Miners of
Northumberland
and Durham
  1873   by Richard Fynes
     
Safety Lamps   1893   Describes the the attributes of the various safety lamps in use at that time
     
Sinking   1893   Sinking and sinking machines, tubbing, walling, quicksand, pneumatic, freezing, Kind-Chauldron etc.
     
The Elements
of Coal Mining
  1917   by Daniel Burns (illustrated)
     
Coal - its origin
and occurrence
  1950s   It provides information on how coal was formed and where it occurs - both within Great Britain and elsewhere in the world.
     
Job Breakdowns   1950s   Procedures for simple to more complex tasks
     

 

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