This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... The largest responsibility in this respect is in the selection of the proper oven to coke the particular coal on hand. The chemistry of coal and coke gives valuable theoretical information; but the practical end in this particular part of the collier' manager's duty is the important one. The more practical ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... The largest responsibility in this respect is in the selection of the proper oven to coke the particular coal on hand. The chemistry of coal and coke gives valuable theoretical information; but the practical end in this particular part of the collier' manager's duty is the important one. The more practical observations he makes, the more intimate will he become with this branch of his possible duties. But in this as in all the othe. departments he must know how, if he would be successful. He will have his burner and the several other subordinates, but this only makes his authority weaker if he does not know how. This brings us to the tipping arrangement and that part of the cleaning of the coal, which is not done by the miner below, nor by the washing and sizing of the finer coal. Modern tippers are various in form and shape, frequently peculiar to a particular district, but the principal object of its construction is to pass the coal from the mine cars over screens and picking belts, where the larger pieces of slate and stone are removed by hand picking, into the railway car. A tipper or bank head, as it is sometimes called, may be any thing from a very simple arrangement to a very complicated affair depending altogether on the conditions bounding the colliery, from which it will be readily seen that the more a man has visited and seen on other works the larger will be his mental range in this particular line of structure. This paper may seem to cover a very wide range but the half has not been mentioned. Diligent study, application, and observation will equip a man so that he may attain such a position in these days, when the " young man" is in demand, between the age of thirty and forty. Experience being absolutely necessary there is a long...
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