[PDF] Coal Age eBook

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Page : 952 pages
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Release : 1912
Category : Coal mines and mining
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Vols. for 1955-1962 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.

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Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Coal mines and mining
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Vols. for 1955-1962 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.

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Page : 110 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781332865727

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Excerpt from Coal Mining Kinks: Compiled From the Regular Issues of Coal Age This difficulty may be overcome by sharpening the drill as shown in Fig. 1, where, it will be seen, the corners have been turned back so that the cutting edge assumes a curved outline. Such a drill point as this will not wedge in ordinary cracks and will thus prevent sticking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ronald J. Buta
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0817358447

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Footprints in Stone is the definitive guide to the Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site in northwest Alabama, the discovery of whose vast quantity of 310-million-year-old fossil tetrapod footprints and other traces is one of the most significant developments in modern paleontology.

Author : Andrew B. Arnold
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0814764568

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If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. Miners and operators dug coal, bought it, and sold it in 1900 in the same ways that they had for generations. In the popular imagination, coal miners epitomized anti-modern forces as the so-called “Molly Maguire” terrorists. Yet the sleekly modern railroads were utterly dependent upon the disorderly coal industry. Railroad managers demanded that coal operators and miners accept the purely subordinate role implied by their status. They refused. Fueling the Gilded Age shows how disorder in the coal industry disrupted the strategic plans of the railroads. It does so by expertly intertwining the history of two industries—railroads and coal mining—that historians have generally examined from separate vantage points. It shows the surprising connections between railroad management and miner organizing; railroad freight rate structure and coal mine operations; railroad strategy and strictly local legal precedents. It combines social, economic, and institutional approaches to explain the Gilded Age from the perspective of the relative losers of history rather than the winners. It beckons readers to examine the still-unresolved nature of America’s national conundrum: how to reconcile the competing demands of national corporations, local businesses, and employees.