Black Powder And Hand Steel
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Black Powder And Hand Steel
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Author : Otis E. Young
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-03-14
Black Powder And Hand Steel written by Otis E. Young and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-14 with History categories.
Mining in the western United States entered its great era after 1860 through use of the double-jack, black powder, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, and the steam engine. Those were the years of bonanza strikes: Henry Wickenburg’s Vulture Mine in Arizona Territory; the main hard-rock gold strike in the desert Southwest; Ed Schieffelin’s discovery of vast silver deposits in Tombstone, Arizona; and the Tonopah-Goldfield strike in Nevada, which netted over one hundred million dollars. Black Powder and Hand Steel describes the miners and the machinery they used. Otis E. Young, Jr., gives an account of the miners, particularly the Cornish and Irish, their origins, character, social life, pleasures, and, most important, their labors. The miner’s lot depended on the tools he used, and the author traces the evolution of the miner’s most important tools: from hoisting bucket to mine elevator, cold mining to dynamite, ore car to skip, hemp to wire rope, and slow match to Bickford fuse. Young reveals the difficulties of prospecting and mining two of the West’s most valuable ores, gold and silver, and gives readers a firsthand look at the challenges of working even the most successful strikes. A companion volume to Young’s Western Mining, Black Powder and Hand Steel is written in the same lively style—informative and entertaining for general readers and scholars. It is also well illustrated, with drawings by Buck O’Donnell.
American Work Sports
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Author : Frank Zarnowski
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-10-01
American Work Sports written by Frank Zarnowski and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
For more than a century the American farm, factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill, win a bet, brag or perhaps just have some fun. Competitions that emphasized useful skills, like plowing, corn-husking, rock drilling, typesetting, and tree cutting, were common in the antebellum and post-Civil War periods, often drawing large crowds and the attention of sporting journals. For many years conventional American sports occurred in the workplace. This may help explain why the nicknames of so many prominent collegiate or professional sporting teams--Cornhuskers, Lumberjacks, Miners, Cowboys, Packers and Boilermakers--are also the occupations of 19th century worker-athletes. By examining the American experience with competitions among workers, this book provides a new understanding of the interrelated nature of occupation and leisure.
Mining Cultures
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Author : Mary Murphy
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2023-02-03
Mining Cultures written by Mary Murphy and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-03 with History categories.
Butte, Montana, long deserved its reputation as a wide-open town. Mining Cultures shows how the fabled Montana city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew. Mary Murphy looks at how women worked and spent their leisure time in a city dominated by the quintessential example of "men's work": mining. Bringing Butte to life, she adds in-depth research on church weeklies, high school yearbooks, holiday rituals, movie plots, and news of local fashion to archival material and interviews. A richly illustrated jaunt through western history, Mining Cultures is the never-told chronicle of how women transformed the richest hill on earth.
Dying For Work
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Author : David Rosner
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1987
Dying For Work written by David Rosner and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Medical categories.
This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century -- radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung.
Mass Destruction
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Author : Timothy J. LeCain
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-22
Mass Destruction written by Timothy J. LeCain and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-22 with History categories.
The place: The steep mountains outside Salt Lake City. The time: The first decade of the twentieth century. The man: Daniel Jackling, a young metallurgical engineer. The goal: A bold new technology that could provide billions of pounds of cheap copper for a rapidly electrifying America. The result: Bingham's enormous "Glory Hole," the first large-scale open-pit copper mine, an enormous chasm in the earth and one of the largest humanmade artifacts on the planet. Mass Destruction is the compelling story of Jackling and the development of open-pit hard rock mining, its role in the wiring of an electrified America, as well its devastating environmental consequences. Mass destruction mining soon spread around the nation and the globe, providing raw materials essential to the mass production and mass consumption that increasingly defined the emerging "American way of life." At the dawn of the last century, Jackling's open pit replaced immense but constricted underground mines that probed nearly a mile beneath the earth, to become the ultimate symbol of the modern faith that science and technology could overcome all natural limits. A new culture of mass destruction emerged that promised nearly infinite supplies not only of copper, but also of coal, timber, fish, and other natural resources. But, what were the consequences? Timothy J. LeCain deftly analyzes how open-pit mining continues to affect the environment in its ongoing devastation of nature and commodification of the physical world. The nation's largest toxic Superfund site would be one effect, as well as other types of environmental dead zones around the globe. Yet today, as the world's population races toward American levels of resource consumption, truly viable alternatives to the technology of mass destruction have not yet emerged.
Catalogue Sip Classic Vespa Vespa Tuning Spareparts Accessories English
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language : en
Publisher: SIP Scootershop
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The Abridgment Containing The Annual Message Of The President Of The United States To The Two Houses Of Congress With Reports Of Departments And Selections From Accompanying Papers
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Author : United States. President
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Abridgment Containing The Annual Message Of The President Of The United States To The Two Houses Of Congress With Reports Of Departments And Selections From Accompanying Papers written by United States. President and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with United States categories.
The Abridgment
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Author : United States. President
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Abridgment written by United States. President and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Executive departments categories.
Message From The President Of The United States To The Two Houses Of Congress At The Commencement Of The Session Of The Congress With The Reports Of The Heads Of Departments And Selections From Accompanying Documents
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Author : United States. President
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
Message From The President Of The United States To The Two Houses Of Congress At The Commencement Of The Session Of The Congress With The Reports Of The Heads Of Departments And Selections From Accompanying Documents written by United States. President and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Executive departments categories.
Medieval Handgonnes
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Author : Sean McLachlan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Medieval Handgonnes written by Sean McLachlan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with History categories.
In the early 14th century, a new weapon entered the arsenals of European armies. This first generation of black powder weapons put fear into the heart of the enemy and in 1453 Ottoman cannon succeeded in pummelling the once-impregnable walls of Constantinople. But cannons, which are both slow and cumbersome, were difficult to use and often proved inaccurate. The first handgonnes were the answer. Easily dismissed by later historians as nothing more than crude tubes that shot wildly inaccurate lead balls, more recent research has revealed the true accuracy of the medieval handgonne together with its penetrative power. This volume, complete with detailed illustrations and colour photographs of reconstructed handgonnes, reveals the true history of what could easily have been the most revolutionary weapon in history.This book will be a must for medieval enthusiasts and re-enactors.
