 ... resembled an unsteady fire of infantry. Immense quantities of dust and small coal accompanied these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small...  Scientific Tracts - Página 1371832Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 514 páginas
...inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne away by a...-:/•• pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In fithe village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight, and covered the roads so... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 530 páginas
...matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne »way by a strong west wind, fell in a continued shower from the 1813.] Accident at Felling Colliery. 361 pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 830 páginas
...inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such' as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne away by a...footsteps of passengers w'ere strongly imprinted in it. The beads of both the shaft frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered... | |
 | 1814 - 564 páginas
...inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits ; but the dust, borne away by a...shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. As soon as the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the workingpit.... | |
 | 1814 - 556 páginas
...inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits ; but the dust, borne away by a...continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile ami a half. As soon as the explosion waa be rd, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the workingr... | |
 | 1814 - 570 páginas
...heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near (he pits; but the dust, borne away by a strong west wind,...shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. As soon as the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the workingpit.... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 páginas
...inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne away by a...footsteps of passengers were strongly imprinted in it. The heads of both the shaft-frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 páginas
...inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne away by a...a continued shower from the pit to the distance of ;i mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight, and... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 928 páginas
...inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne away by a...shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. As sop** " the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ,,tn to the working-pit.... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 902 páginas
...of wood, and small coal,, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne avr.iy by a strong west wind, feu in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. As soon as the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working-pit.... | |
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