"Colliery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... off together half an hour later, and they walked up through the hot main street of the little colliery town. It was not an attractive place, with rickety plank sidewalks raised several feet above the street, towering telegraph-poles, wooden stores, and square frame houses cracked by the weather, and mostly ...
— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss
... experiments of great interest and vital importance to colliery owners and all those engaged in mining coal has been carried out during the last ten days in the South Yorkshire coal field. The new mines regulation act provides that any explosible used in coal mines shall either be fired in a water cartridge or be of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 • Various
... had formerly been stationed in another colliery were changed over to the one at which these men were employed, and the care of these animals occupied the drivers an extra hour morning and night, which the miners ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 46, September 23, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... of the plant itself in starting and stopping, would be saved, and that perfect immunity from products of combustion would be insured The experience at Lichterfelde, at Paris, and another electric line of 765 yards in length, and 2 ft. 2 in. gauge, worked in connection with the Zaukerode Colliery since October, 1882, were extremely favorable to this mode of propulsion. The lecturer however did not advocate its prospective application in competition with the locomotive engine for main lines of railway. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various
... in which they are so improved of late years that they have now a greater share of it than any other town in England, and have quite worked the Ipswich men out of it who had formerly the chief share of the colliery in their hands. ...
— Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 • Daniel Defoe |
