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... needed for the preservation of human life . Public attention has been forcibly called , whilst this work was in the printer's hands , to the question of the duration of the coalfields ; and the Royal Commission , appointed during the ...
... needed for the preservation of human life . Public attention has been forcibly called , whilst this work was in the printer's hands , to the question of the duration of the coalfields ; and the Royal Commission , appointed during the ...
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Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth. works , saved so large a proportion of the coal needed for the smelting of each ton of pig - iron , that the great majority of the iron works were forced by competition to adopt the same method ; and in ...
Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth. works , saved so large a proportion of the coal needed for the smelting of each ton of pig - iron , that the great majority of the iron works were forced by competition to adopt the same method ; and in ...
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... needed thus to form one of our thicker seams of coals ; but we have seen how the latter are generally divisible into several beds , and these again into thin laminæ , whilst we know that peat - bogs of the present day , without the ...
... needed thus to form one of our thicker seams of coals ; but we have seen how the latter are generally divisible into several beds , and these again into thin laminæ , whilst we know that peat - bogs of the present day , without the ...
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... needed to change it into that condensed form of fuel now so necessary to mankind . And when at length , after ages of due preparation , portions of the coal formation were upheaved into the islands and continents , the seams of coal ...
... needed to change it into that condensed form of fuel now so necessary to mankind . And when at length , after ages of due preparation , portions of the coal formation were upheaved into the islands and continents , the seams of coal ...
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... needed . Even when flying along in a railway train you may remark the difference ; how in parts of Staffordshire you will see the ground riddled with crowds of pits , whilst in Durham and Northumberland a single " plant " of pits and ...
... needed . Even when flying along in a railway train you may remark the difference ; how in parts of Staffordshire you will see the ground riddled with crowds of pits , whilst in Durham and Northumberland a single " plant " of pits and ...
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