in Pennsylvania andWest Virginia, but they created too much smoke. Compressed-air locomotives, which appeared in the 1880s, proved expensive to operate. Electric locomotives, introduced in 1887, rapidly became popular, but mules and horses were still working in some mines as late as the 1940s...
In the New World Up to the time of theAmerican Revolution, most coal used in theAmerican coloniescame from England orNova Scotia. Wartime shortages and the needs of the munitions manufacturers, however, spurred small American coal-mining operations such as those in Virginia on the James River ...
Sunday, March 9, 1862, ushered in a new era of naval history as two of the strangest warships the world had yet seen clashed on the waters of Hampton Roads, Virginia (Fig. 12.1). That benchmark day...doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14508-2_12Robert C. Whisonant...
Most surface coal mining is in Wyoming, with Appalachian mines, primarily in West Virginia and Kentucky, yielding about one third as much. Nonetheless, landscape transformation caused by Appalachian coal mining is of great concern (Saylor, 2008), and many scientists are particularly concerned about ...
"Amazingly thorough, obsessively comprehensive documentation of coal mines and coal mining towns in the Appalachian mountain area. " - Encyclopedia of Forlorn Places. EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN OHIO WESTERN MARYLAND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA ...
Black Diamond Mines by Lizette Twain on December 30, 2015 in California, Places of Interest • 0 Comments California may not be the first state that comes to mind when contemplating coal mining, yet coal was a critical energy resource for the fledgling state. The Mount Diablo Coalfield in...
1736 Coal mines in Colonial America Several “coal mines” are shown on a map of the upper Potomac River, near what is now the border of Maryland and West Virginia. 1748 First commercial coal production The first commercial coal production in colonial America is recorded near Richmond, Virginia...
Across the Atlantic, efforts to repurpose old coal mines so that they can be used for many more years to come have also been taking shape. In Scotland, researchers have been looking at how the water that's floodedold, disused minescan be used to provide decarbonized heating to buildings....
Research examining the size distribution of particulate matter from coal mines in West Virginia found that there was a statistically significant increase in PM10and an elevated number of ultrafine particles as compared to non-coal mining regions. The chemical constituents of the particles and the incre...
Veteran coal miners share personal stories of their experiences working in the coal mines of West Virginia with visitors. We were emotionally immersed in the heartfelt personal stories shared by Dorsal of his days working in the underground coal mines. The presentat...