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Coal

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Images from the collections

Images about Coal

12 images from works
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal in order to be able to extract a tooth more easily. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.
  • Fishmongers' Hall, Thames Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate allegorical carving above the doors, two fashionable ladies, a scholar and a coal-heaver in the street. Engraving by J. Greig after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • Apparatus for coal mining and two illustrations of coalmines. Engraving by A. Krausse for G. Heck.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Coloured etching, 1810, after J. Collier.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • Machinery designed by Smeaton for extracting coal from the pits. Etching by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • Collier and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Engineering: a patent furnace with continuous solid-fuel feed. Coloured lithograph.

Works from the collections

92 works

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    Observations on the different strata of earths, and minerals. More particularly of such as are found in the coal-mines of Great Britain / By John Strachey.

    | Strachey, John | Date: 1727
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    Poisoning by coal-gas / reported by Gilbart Smith, M.A., M.D.

    | Smith, Gilbart | Date: [January, 1877?]
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    • Online

    Specification of James Palmer Budd : manufacture of coke.

    | Budd, James Palmer. | Date: 1857
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    Coal : a human history / Barbara Freese.

    | Barbara E. Freese | Date: 2005
    • Ephemera

    Symbols of scientific sevice in home and factory : the coal problem - wisdom and economy / The British Commercial Gas Association.

    | Date: [1925]
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Fuel
Coke
Smoke prevention
Furnaces
Fireplaces
Coal Tar
Tars
Machinery
Coke-ovens

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