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The tamping iron bears the following inscription, commissioned by Bigelow in conjunction with the iron's original deposit in the Museum [36] (though the date given for the accident is one day off): This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr Phinehas P. Gage at Cavendish Vermont Sept 14, 1848. He fully recovered from the injury ...
A miner's name for a working partner (South Wales) or for their opposite number on another shift (N. England) but also in earlier times an alternative name for a charter master. The "butty system" was the contracting system used by charter masters.
The Riegel mine 43 or (Sprengriegel/R.Mi. 43) is a German steel cased anti-tank bar mine used during the Second World War. The mine is a long thin rectangle . It consists of a lower and upper metal tray, and an internal metal-cased explosive block.
The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall was founded in the town in 1814 [49] and about 1817 was responsible for introducing a miner's safety tamping bar, which attracted the Prince Regent to become its patron. [50]
Some sources even list the goods manufactured by the company, i.e., "tamping bars, claw bars, picks, and shovels." [6] [7] But others have cast doubt on the existence of such a company. The Chicago Historical Society has been asked for information on the company so many times that they have said, "It's like a legend," but they have never been ...
In the U.S., average Joes are getting into the market, too: The bigbox chain Costco made waves when it began selling one-ounce gold bars at select stores, and it’s now selling up to $200 million ...
The L9 bar mine is a large rectangular British anti-tank landmine.The bar mine's principal advantage is its long length, and therefore its trigger length. A typical anti-tank landmine is circular, and a vehicle's wheels or tracks, which make up only a small proportion of its total width, must actually press on the mine to activate it.
During the first medieval centuries, the output of metal was in a steady decline with constraints in small-scale activities. Miners adopted methods much less efficient than those of Roman times. Ores were extracted only from shallow depths or from remnants of formerly abandoned mines.