The Project Gutenberg eBook of Coal and the coal mines, by Homer Greene

CHAPTER IX. THE MINER AT WORK.

CHAPTER X. WHEN THE MINE ROOF FALLS.

CHAPTER XI. AIR AND WATER IN THE MINES.

CHAPTER II. THE COMPOSITION OF COAL.

CHAPTER XII. THE DANGEROUS GASES.

CHAPTER XIII. THE ANTHRACITE COAL BREAKER.

CHAPTER XIV. IN THE BITUMINOUS COAL MINES.

CHAPTER XV. THE BOY WORKERS AT THE MINES.

CHAPTER XVI. MINERS AND THEIR WAGES.

COAL AND THE COAL MINES

GLOSSARY OF MINING TERMS.

INDEX.

THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE

CHAPTER III. WHEN COAL WAS FORMED.

CHAPTER IV. HOW THE COAL BEDS LIE.

PREFACE.

CHAPTER V. THE DISCOVERY OF COAL.

CHAPTER VI. THE INTRODUCTION OF COAL INTO USE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER VII. THE WAY INTO THE MINES.

CHAPTER I. IN THE BEGINNING.

CHAPTER VIII. A PLAN OF A COAL MINE.