Octavo, 886 pages, index, illustrated, foldouts. Cloth covers a little worn but in VG condition for its age. Contains: Dvorkovitz: Boring & Drilling on Oilfields; Rice: American Coal-dust Investigations; Description of Coventry Colliery (in the course of sinking) Keresley, near Coventry; Williams: Some Remarks on Mining Education; Siddall: Some Notes on Supporting the Roof in Coal Mines; Rhodes: The Drift Deposits of Preswich, Manchester and Neighbourhood; Bolton: The Fauna and Stratigraphy of the Kent Coalfield; Signal Indicators - I The Adlington Signal Apparatus & II The B-well Signal Indicator; Graham: The Absorption of Oxygen by Coal Part VII, O'Shea: Some Notes on the Explosion at Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery; Dron: The Training of Mining Engineers; Gibson: Some Notes on the Education of Colliery Manager; Briggs: Rescue-station Organization: the Resident-brigade System versus the System of non-resident Brigades; McCormick: An Auxiliary Aid Outfit for Attachment to Self-contained Rescue-apparatus; Halbaum: The Lateral Friction of Winding-ropes; Davis: Winding-engine Signals; Poole: The Prevention of Overwinding and Overspeeding in Shafts; Brown: Coal-mining in Mexico; Halbaum: The Winding-drums of Practice and of Theory; Chater: Mining in Burma; Dixon: The Nature of Explosions; Morgan: Coal-dust Explosions; Gregory: Notes on Sampling; Cashmore: The Reduction of Working-costs at the Coal-face; Paton: Modern Developments in Hydraulic Stowing, with Suggestions for its Application in the Staffordshire and District Coalfield and the Recovery of Abandoned Coal plus numerous discussions on paper in this volume and others, notes etc. Seller Inventory # 002858

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Title: Transactions of The Institution of Mining ...

Publisher: Institution of Mining Engineers

Publication Date: 1915

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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