A Manual of Mining: Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at the School of Mines of the State of Colorado (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ihlseng, Magnus C.

9780267215270: A Manual of Mining: Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at the School of Mines of the State of Colorado (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267215274 ISBN 13: 9780267215270

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Manual of Mining: Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at the School of Mines of the State of Colorado

IN the present issue the text has been increased by more than fifty pages in order to introduce additional matter per taining to the design of cars, hoisting appliances, and fans, the added illustrations having been specially prepared with that end in View. At the end of each chapter will be found a list of memoirs which have been carefully selected to com prehend the latest literature on the subject. The original intent to also enter at some length upon a discussion of the applications of electricity to mining was abandoned after a number of fruitless efforts to compress the matter into the. Small compass which it should occupy in a work of this nature.

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