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Coal and the coal mines

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Coal and the coal mines

Homer Greene

225 pages~4 hr 29 min read22 chapters$4.99
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Every lump of coal is a fossil forest, pressed and buried for ages. Homer Greene explains how coal formed, how its beds lie underground, and how it was discovered and put to work. Clear science and mining history for the general reader. For anyone curious about the black rock that powered an age, and the men who dug it out.

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22 chapters

  1. 1COAL AND THE COAL MINES
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. IN THE BEGINNING.
  6. 6CHAPTER II. THE COMPOSITION OF COAL.
  7. 7CHAPTER III. WHEN COAL WAS FORMED.
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. HOW THE COAL BEDS LIE.
  9. 9CHAPTER V. THE DISCOVERY OF COAL.
  10. 10CHAPTER VI. THE INTRODUCTION OF COAL INTO USE.
  11. 11CHAPTER VII. THE WAY INTO THE MINES.
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII. A PLAN OF A COAL MINE.
  13. 13CHAPTER IX. THE MINER AT WORK.
  14. 14CHAPTER X. WHEN THE MINE ROOF FALLS.
  15. 15CHAPTER XI. AIR AND WATER IN THE MINES.
  16. 16CHAPTER XII. THE DANGEROUS GASES.
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII. THE ANTHRACITE COAL BREAKER.
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV. IN THE BITUMINOUS COAL MINES.

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