A History of Coal Mining

Abstract

THIS unpretentious little volume of 273 pages contains a vastly greater amount of information of a useful and varied character than might at first sight be expected, and its author has evidently taken pains to collect the whole of his data from authentic and original sources. He has also succeeded to an eminent degree in welding them together into a concise, clearly written, and intensely interesting narrative. The twenty-three chapters into which the work is divided partly serve the purpose of marking more or less distinct epochs in the history of mining, partly pave the way for introducing accounts of inventions which have owed their origin to its evergrowing necessities. Prominent among these are the railway and the steam-engine, both of which were born and fostered amongst the coal-mines of Great Britain more than a hundred years before they began to revolutionise the world.

A History of Coal Mining in Great Britain.

By Robert L. Galloway, Author of “The Steam-Engine and its Inventors.” (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882.)