Underground Life; Or, Mines and Miners1869 - 522 strani |
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Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
accidents amongst ancient basin beds Belgium beneath borings bottom Britain burning called carbonic acid Carboniferous carried Coal Measures coal raised coal-basins coal-fields coal-mines coal-producing collieries combustible copper Cornwall Cretaceous Creuzot cylinder deposits depth Devonian discovery districts drift-way employed engineer England English Europe explosion extended feet fire fire-damp formation France French fuel furnished galleries geological gold ground heat hundred industry instance iron labour lamp Lastly less levels Liége lignite Limestone lodes London means metal metalliferous mètres miles miners mines mode Montchanin Moselle Mouille-longe nature nearly Newcastle Pas-de-Calais pits Plate present produced Prussia quantity of coal railways Rive-de-Gier rocks Roderick Murchison rope safety-lamps Saint-Etienne sandstones Saône-et-Loire scarcely schists seams of coal shaft silver Simonin sometimes South South Staffordshire steam-engine stone strata subterranean sunk surface thick timber tion tons tubs underground United Kingdom veins Vincent Brooks waggons yards
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 367 - The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds with the sordid cry of 'gold! GOLD!! GOLD!!!' while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes...
Stran 47 - To investigate the probable quantity of coal contained in the coalfields of the United Kingdom, and to report on the quantity of such coal which may be reasonably expected to be available for use...
Stran 43 - ... elastic force of the steam is the moving power, and this force is proportionably greater as the piston is more loaded and the steam more confined. If the bulb be now plunged into cold water, the steam in the cylinder is condensed, and a vacuum is produced below the piston, which is now forced down to the bottom of the cylinder by the pressure of the atmosphere. In this case, the moving power is acquired by the condensation of the steam, and the consequent production of a vacuum ; and this is...
Stran 496 - ¡25,000 rupees, or about 12,000/. sterling. According to Shah Shuja's own account, however, he assigned to him the revenues of three villages, not one rupee of which he ever realised.
Stran 282 - Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known. Afterwards the force of iron and copper was discovered ; and the use of copper was known before that of iron, as its nature is easier to work and it is found in greater quantity.
Stran 10 - He has found that the presence of a few hundredths of carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere, while offering almost no obstacle to the passage of the solar rays, would suffice to prevent almost entirely the loss by radiation of obscure heat, so that the surface of the land beneath such an atmosphere would become like a vast orchard-house, in which the conditions of climate, necessary to a luxuriant vegetation, would be extended even to the polar regions.
Stran 149 - Newspapers duly specifying it, two miners deep down in the shaft were engaged putting in a shot for blasting : they had completed their affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all...
Stran 10 - The gradual removal, in the form of carbonate of lime, of the carbonic acid from the primeval atmosphere, has been connected with great changes in the organic life of the globe. The air was doubtless at first unfit for the respiration of warm-blooded animals, and we find the higher forms of life coming gradually into existence as we approach the present period of a purer air. Calculations lead us to conclude that the amount of carbon thus removed in the form of carbonic acid has been so enormous,...
Stran 149 - Both shouted vehemently to the coadjutor at the windlass, both sprang at the basket; the windlass man could not move it with them both. Here was a moment for poor miner Jack and miner Will! Instant horrible death hangs over both — when Will generously resigns himself: "Go aloft, Jack" and sits down; "Away; in one minute I shall be in Heaven.
Stran 264 - Hull's estimate be greatly under the true amount, we cannot but allow that "rather more than a century of our present progress would exhaust our mines to the depth of 4000 feet, or 1500 feet deeper than our present deepest mine.