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On 24 October 1963, the Lengede-Broistedt Iron Mine near Salzgitter was flooded with 500,000 cubic metres (18,000,000 cu ft) of muddy water after a sedimentation pond had broken its ground and the tunnels between the 60-metre (200 ft) and 100 m (330 ft) levels. Out of 129 workers, 79 escaped during the first few hours.
The Hafthohlladung (German, lit. "adhesive hollow charge"), also known as the "Panzerknacker" ("tank breaker", an analogy to "safe cracker"), was a magnetically adhered, shaped charge anti-tank grenade used by German forces in World War II, and was sometimes described as a mine.
The threat to shipping posed by magnetic detonators was effectively negated after a German parachute mine was captured intact when it landed in mud in the Thames Estuary. Thereafter, a ship's magnetic field could be counteracted by a process called degaussing. This involved either the installation of electric wires around the inside of the hull ...
Coal mining disasters in Germany (1 P) ... Luisenthal Mine; W. Wunder von Lengede This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 18:14 (UTC) ...
1 1962 mine disaster. 2 See also. 3 References. ... The mine was known as the site of the largest mine accident in the history of the German Federal Republic, when ...
The Luisenthal Mine is located in Völklingen, a town in the state of Saarland, Germany. The mine has been in operation since the 1800s, although coal has been mined in Luisthenal since 1719. [2] The Luisenthal mine was considered to be very susceptible to firedamp explosions due to the high concentration of firedamp in the seams. From 1904 to ...
Jul. 6—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Approximately 120 years ago, 112 miners walked into the Rolling Mill Mine portal on the morning of July 10, 1902, but none returned home that day. An explosion, caused ...
On 22 September 2006, a Transrapid magnetic levitation (or "maglev") train collided with a maintenance vehicle near Lathen, Germany, killing 23 people and wounding 11. It was the first fatal crash involving a maglev train.