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Bottom of a pit shaft in a coal mine with a train of loaded wagons, 1860.
Bottom of a pit shaft in a coal mine with a train of loaded wagons waiting to be hoisted to the surface, 1860. The coal wagons have flanged wheels. The man seated on right is lighting his clay pipe, a dangerous procedure underground in a coalmine where it could could cause an explosion of methane (firedamp). From A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields... by W Fordyce. (London, 1860).
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HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
Coal
Coal Industry
coal miner
Coal mining
coal truck
coal waggon
coal wagon
Engraving
Fordyce
Fuel
Industry
Male
Man
Men
MINE
Mine (Mining)
mine shaft
Miner
Monochrome
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Oxford Science Archive
People
PIT
Print Collector1
RAIL
Seated
SHAFT
Train
transport
TRANSPORTATION
Underground
W
W Fordyce
WAGGON
Wagon