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40 pages, 3 unnumbered folded pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 33 cm

Report to the secretary of state for the home department on the causes of death in colliery explosions and underground fires, with special reference to the explosions at Tylorstown, Brancepeth and Micklefield / by John Haldane.

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4 unnumbered pages, vi, 44 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of folded plates ; 16 cm (12mo)

Instructions sur les moyens à employer pour rappeler à la vie les personnes asphyxiées par les vapeurs meurtrières du charbon en combustion : suivies d'un mémoire sur la préparation du gaz oxigène et sa conversation : avec une planche qui représente les appareils que l'on doit employer à cet effet, etc. / par A.P. Favre.

<p>The National Colliery at Wattstown, in the Rhondda Valley in Wales, had been the location of two explosions causing loss of life and injury in 1887 and 1905</p>

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 19.7 x 24.6 cm

Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.

xv, 547 pages, 170 unnumbered pages : portraits, illustrations, folded facsimiles ; 28 cm (4to).

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.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8.7 x 13.8 cm

Teversal Colliery, Nottinghamshire: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment. Photograph, 191-.

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An account of the dreadful explosion in Wallsend Colliery, on the 18th June, 1835, to which is added a list of explosions, inundations, &c. which have occurred in the Coal Mines of Northumberland and Durham ... : y John Sykes.

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Report to the secretary of state for the home department on the causes of death in colliery explosions and underground fires, with special reference to the explosions at Tylorstown, Brancepeth and Micklefield / by John Haldane.

Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.

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.

Teversal Colliery, Nottinghamshire: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment. Photograph, 191-.

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.

An account of the dreadful explosion in Wallsend Colliery, on the 18th June, 1835, to which is added a list of explosions, inundations, &c. which have occurred in the Coal Mines of Northumberland and Durham ... : y John Sykes.

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Report to the secretary of state for the home department on the causes of death in colliery explosions and underground fires, with special reference to the explosions at Tylorstown, Brancepeth and Micklefield / by John Haldane.

Wattstown, Wales: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment and a training dummy. Photograph by A. Davies, 1914.

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.

Teversal Colliery, Nottinghamshire: a rescue brigade of the coal mine, with breathing equipment. Photograph, 191-.

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.

An account of the dreadful explosion in Wallsend Colliery, on the 18th June, 1835, to which is added a list of explosions, inundations, &c. which have occurred in the Coal Mines of Northumberland and Durham ... : y John Sykes.

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