Thomas Bartley's Study Book for a Higher Mining Exam - page one"

Padeswood Road, Buckley

15 January 1929

NOTEBOOK INSIDE COVER TEXT

Thomas Bartley

15.1.1929

(Higher Mining)

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A red-covered notebook belonging to Thomas Bartley contains study notes and intricate worked examples in his clear handwriting for a mining qualification. It is not known in which Buckley mine he worked but he was a very talented man.

Some of the topic headings noted are:

The Friction of Air Currents in Mines

Equivalent Orifice

Manometrical Efficiency

Orifice of Discharge

Units of Work

Useful Effects of a Fan

Rules for Conversion for Different Readings of Thermometers

Useful Notes as to Water

The Air Vessel on a Pump

Pumping

Frakam's Law on the Diffusion of Gases

The Friction of Air Currents in Mines

Ropes for Colliery Purposes

The Produce of Coal Seams

Cage Speed

Winding Engines

Balancing the Weight of a Rope

Boilers

Lancashire and Cornish Boiler

Back Pressure on Engines

Valves

Geology

Support for Mine Workings

Steel Girders

Roads in Solid Coal and in Longwall Workings

Sites for Shafts

Barometer

Safety Lamps

Methods of Working Coal

Atmospheric Air

Order of an Explosion

Mechanical Ventilation

The Walker Indistructible Fan

Ventilating Pressure

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The end page states:

The End of Higher Mining

Author: Anon

Thomas Bartley's Study Book for a Higher Mining Exam - page one"

Padeswood Road, Buckley

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