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IN a paper recently contributed to the South Wales Institute of Engineers,1 Mr. Archibald Hood, the President, says: ββIt was probably first suggested by Faraday and Lyell about the year 1845 tnat coal-dust was in some way inflammable. This idea was subsequently set forth by several French engineers, but all that was done previous to the year 1875 bears the same relation to subsequent demonstrations as the steam-engine of Hero of Alexandria bears to the steam-engine of the nineteenth century.β
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"On the Watering of Dusty Mines." The South Wales Institute of Engineers, March 18, 1886.
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GALLOWAY, W. On Laying the Dust in Mines . Nature 34, 278β279 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034278c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/034278c0