This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... Underground Pumping Machinery. MINE DRAINAGE. Being a Complete and Practical Treatise on Direct-Acting Underground Steam Pumping Machinery, with a Description of a large number of the best known Engines, their General Utility and the Special Sphere of their Action, the Mode of their Application, and their merits compared with other forms of Pumping Machinery. By Stephen Michell. 8vo, 15s. cloth. "Will be highly esteemed by colliery owners and lessees, mining engineers, and students generally who require to be acquamted with the best means of securing the drainage of mines. Tt k a most valuable work, and stands almost alone in the literature of steam pumping machinery.' -- Colliery Guardian. "Much valuable information is given, so that the book is thoroughly worthy of an extensive circulation amongst practical men and purchasers of machinery.'--Mining Journal. Mining Tools. A MANUAL OF MINING TOOLS. For the Use of Mine Managers, Agents, Students, &c. By William Morgans, Lecturer on Practical Mining at the Bristol School of Mines. i2mo, 3s. cloth boards. A TLA S OF ENGRA VINGS to Illustrate the above, containing 235 Illustrations of Mining Tools, drawn to scale. 4to, 4s, 6d. cloth. "Students in the science of mining, and overmen, captains, managers, and viewers may gain practical knowledge and useful hints by the studv of Mr. Morgans' manual."--Colliery Guardian. "A valuable work, which will tend materially to improve our mining literature."--Mining Journal. Coal Mining. COAL AND COAL MINING: A Rudimentary Treatise on. By Sir Warington W. Smyth, M.A., F.R.S., &c., Chief Inspector of the Mines of the Crown. New Edition, Revised and Corrected. With numerous Illustrations. i2mo, 45. cloth boards. "As an outline is given of every known...