The history and description of fossil fuel, the collieries, and coal trade of Great Britain

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The history and description of fossil fuel, the collieries, and coal trade of Great Britain

(Cass library of industrial classics, no. 15)(Reprints of economic classics)

Cass , A.M. Kelley, 1968

2nd ed., new impression

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Facsimile reprint of 2nd ed., London, Whittaker, 1841

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First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Table of Contents

  • Introductory - fire and fuel
  • geological theories
  • peat
  • natural history of coal
  • organic remains
  • the coal formation
  • coal measures
  • dislocations of strata
  • boring and sinking
  • working machinery
  • underground works and ventilation
  • getting the coal
  • underground accidents
  • the safety lamp
  • the colliers
  • the coal trade
  • varieties of coal
  • conveyance of coal
  • the London coal trade
  • Irish, Scotch and Welsh coal trade
  • conversion and products of coal
  • home consumption
  • foreign coal trade
  • probable duration of our coal
  • foreign coal deposits.

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