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Mining engineering

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  • Two illustrations of a machine for measuring the draughts from a mine. Etching by Mutlow.
  • A pulley system in a mine. Woodcut by Hans Rudolph Manuel, 1557.
  • Geology: diagram of the strata encountered when sinking a mineshaft. Coloured lithograph.
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Catalogue

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    Anleitung zu der Bergbaukunst nach ihrer Theorie und Ausübung : nebst einer Abhandlung von den Grundsätzen der Berg-Kammeralwissenschaft für die Kaiserl. Königl Schemnitzer Bergakademie / entworfen von Christoph Traugott Delius.

    Delius, Christoph Traugott, 1728-1779. | Date: 1773
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    Record of proceedings : Meeting of Experts on the Prevention and Suppression of Dust in Mining, Tunnelling and Quarrying Geneva, December 1952.

    Meeting of Experts on the Prevention and Suppression of Dust in Mining, Tunnelling and Quarrying (1952 : Geneva, Switzerland) | Date: 1954
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    Two illustrations of a machine for measuring the draughts from a mine. Etching by Mutlow.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 29269i
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    Geology: diagram of the strata encountered when sinking a mineshaft in Leicestershire. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 46952i
    • Books

    Biotechnology and the mining industry : the bacterial connection / Rohini Acharya, Ralph Spencer.

    Acharya, Rohini. | Date: 1991
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