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Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.
Date: 1914Reference: 988605i- Books
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Monongah : the tragic story of the worst industrial accident in US history / Davitt McAteer.
McAteer, J. DavittDate: 2007- Books
Danger, death and disaster in the Crowsnest Pass mines, 1902-1928 / Karen Buckley.
Buckley, Karen Lynne, 1963-Date: [2004], ©2004- Pictures
Bandaging techniques for use in first aid. Lithograph, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 658002i- Books
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Report upon the inspection of mines classed under the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts in the counties of Anglesey, Brecon, Cardigan, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth, Montgomery, Radnor, and Shropshire, and in the Isle of Man, for the year 1886 / by C. le Neve Foster.
Foster, Clement le Neve, 1841-1904.Date: [1887]- Books
A study of absenteeism in a group of ten collieries / by H.M. Vernon and T. Bedford ; assisted by C.G. Warner.
Vernon, Horace Middleton, 1870-Date: 1928- Archives and manuscripts
Mines Commission work
Date: 1862Reference: PP/JBA/DPart of: Bankart, James (1834-1902), surgeon and ophthalmologist- Books
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Traité pratique des maladies, des accidents et des difformités des houilleurs / par H. Boëns-Boissau.
Boëns, Hubert, 1825-1898.Date: 1862- Books
Two important safety devices for mines / [W. Naumann].
Naumann, W.Date: 1941- Books
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Observations on the preliminary care and attention necessary for accidental bodily injuries and mutilations occurring in mines and establishments where many workpeople are employed / by T. Longmore.
Longmore, Sir Thomas, 1816-1895.Date: [1874]- Books
"Catástrofe morboso de las minas mercuriales de la villa de Almadén del Azogue" (1778) de José Parés y Franqués / Alfredo Menéndez Navarro ; prologado por Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña ; [presentación: Pascual Crespo Crespo].
Menéndez Navarro, Alfredo.Date: 1998- Books
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Disability in the Industrial Revolution : physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780-1880 / David M. Turner, Daniel Blackie.
Turner, David M., 1972-Date: 2018- Books
No one ailing except a physician : medicine in the mining West, 1848-1919 / Duane A. Smith, Ronald C. Brown.
Smith, Duane A.Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
An essay on burns, in two parts; principally on those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of carburetted hydrogen gas; containing also a view of the opinions of ancient and modern authors upon the treatment of accidents by fire; and including a variety of cases conducted upon different principles ... / [Edward Kentish].
Kentish, Edward, -1832.Date: 1817- Books
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A short account of a society at Amsterdam instituted in the year 1767 for the recovery of drowned persons; With Observations Shewing the Utility and Advantage that would accrue to Great Britain from a similar Institution Extended To Cases Of Suffocation BY Damps In Mines, Choaking, Strangling, Stifling, And Other Accidents: by Alexander Johnson, M.D.
Johnson, Alexander, 1715 or 1716-1799.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An essay on burns, in two parts : principally on those which happen to workmen in mines, from the explosions of carburetted hydrogen gas: containing also a view of the opinions of ancient, and modern authors upon the treatment of accidents by fire: and including a variety of cases conducted upon different principles ... / by Edward Kentish.
Kentish Edward, -1832.Date: 1817- Books
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A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon metals, mines, and minerals. Containing, I. Curious Observations on Mines and the several Minerals produced; with plain Directions and Rules for finding them in all Countries. II. The Art of Melting, Refining and Assaying all Sorts of Metals, whereby any Person at a small Charge may try the Value of such Oars as shall be found, either by Rule or Accid en. With Instructions for Sorting of Oar. III. Real Experiments, to try whether any Piece offer'd for Gold be true or counterfeit, what Colour any Berry, Leaf, Flower, Stalk, Root, Fruit, Seed, Bark or Wood will give. With an infallible Method of preparing Colours, which shall neither stain nor fade like Ordinary Colours. IV. The Common Way of Refining Silver by Quicksilver. With some new Rules added for the better Performance. V. An Invaluable Discovery of all Sorts of Mines from Gold to Coal. Also, The Compleat Miner, with the Liberties, Laws and Customs of the Lead Mines within the Wapentake of Wirksworth in Derbyshire, in Fifty Nine Articles, being all that were ever made. VI. The Art of Dyalling, or Levelling Grooves, greatly desired by all Miners: Being a Subject never wrote on before, with an Explanation of the Miners Terms of Art, and several other curious Particulars. Being, a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, Director of the Mines at Potosi, in the Spanish West Indies, and the Observations of several Ingenuous Persons of our own Country, sounded on many Years Experience.
Barba, Alvaro Alonso, 1569-Date: [1740]- Books
The life of Sir Humphry Davy : Bart., LL. D., late president of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c. / by John Ayrton Paris.
Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856.Date: 1831- Books
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A discovery of subterraneall treasure : viz. of all manner of mines and mineralls, from the gold to the coale; with plaine directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries. And also the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared, so that every ordinary man, that is indifferently capacious, may with small change presently try the value of such oares as shall be found either by rule or by accident. Whereunto is added a reall experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any peece of gold that shal come to his hands be true or connterfeit [sic] ... Also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leafe, flower, stalke, root, fruit, seed, barke, or wood will give: with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stayne nor fade like ordinary colours.
Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640Date: M DC XXXIX [1639]- Books
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A discovery of subterranean treasure : (viz.) of all manner of mines and minerals, from the gold to the coal with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries, and also the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared, so that every ordinary man, that is indifferently capacious, may with small charge presently try the value of such oars [sic] as shall be found either by rule or by accident : whereunto is added a real experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any piece of gold that shall come to his hands be true or counterfeit, without defacing or altering the form thereof, and more certainly than any goldsmith or refiner could formerly discern : also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leaf, flower, stalk, root, fruit, seed, bark, or wood will give : with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stain nor fade like ordinary colours : very necessary for every one to know, whether he be traveller by land or sea, or in what country, dominion, or plantation soever he shall inhabit / by Mr. Gabriel Plattes.
Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640Date: 1679- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+26.
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Joseph Baker Grindon, A Compendium of the Law of Coroners (London, 1850)
Date: c.1856Reference: MS.8490- Archives and manuscripts
Reviews, 341-360
Date: 1957-1958Reference: PP/AWD/C/7/341-360Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Pictures
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Electrical instruments exhibited at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition; including a tramway, an electric boat and an electric chair. Wood engraving by A. Marie, 1881.
Marie, Adrien-Emmanuel, 1848-1891.Date: 1881Reference: 578800i- Audio
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Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 4, Track 12.
Date: 1972