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Begining of Coal Mining Industry (when it starts to get serious anyway)
In the early 1700s Europeans had pretty much exhuasted shallow mines and were forced to dig deeper to supply their industrial revolutions. so to make Mining quicker inventors look to this as a challenge and set to it:D -
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Changes Of Coal Mining Industry
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Thomas Newcomen invents Steam Engine
Mines flooded frequently because they were underground. newcoman invented the steam engine which well in short pumped the water out of the mines and converted it to steam through pressure. -
Watt Steam Engine
First type of Steam Engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum. Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen engine, and greatly increasing the fuel efficiency of the machine. -
John Buddle Invents Air pump
Mines filled up with explosive and poisonous gases buddle's Air pump eased if not completly neutralized this problem. -
Sir Humphry Davy invents Safety Lamp
Coal Mines Had problems with gas leaks and open flame causing an explosion but the workers had to work by light somehow. Sir Davy invented the Safety Lamp dubbed "a miners friend" so the miners could work without open flames being exposed to the gases. -
Parliament Published an shocking report
Mines reported that children under the age of five were indeed working in the mines. these reports would lead to the Mines Act later in 1842 -
Mines Act
this piece of legislation prevented women and boys under ten years old from mine work, and paved the way for other legislation to set equitable working conditions for industrial workers. -
General Mining Association
The General Mining Association assembled by british mining investors, who built workshops and a railroads to North Sydney Mines, surrendered their mining rights, allowing 30 new mining buisnesses to come along. -
Victoria Mines Railway
The Low Point, Barrasois and Lingan Coal Company opened the Victoria Mines Railway. which made extracting coal and transporting it easier. -
Wages of the Coal Companies in Breton
Wages of these companies went from 80 cents a day to $1.50. boy children were still paid 65 cents per days work. these wage changes still did nothing to prevent the strikes that arrived in later yrs. -
Carbide Lamps
while working with lime, coal tar and a carbon mixture, Major James T. Morehead and Thomas L. Willson developed a brownish-grey substance that gave off a gas when mixed with water. This gas burned with a bright yellow-white flame and they called it acetylene. Within eight years the first carbide lamp was offered to the public.
