ping.--VI., Production and Costs.--VII., Main
Driving.--VIII., Arrangement of Machinery and Mill Planning.--IX., Waste
and Waste Spinning.--Index to Illustrations.--General Index.

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=Books for Mining Engineers and Steam Users.=

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=RECOVERY WORK AFTER PIT FIRES.= A Description of the Principal Methods
Pursued, especially in Fiery Mines, and of the Various Appliances
Employed, such as Respiratory and Rescue Apparatus, Dams, etc. By ROBERT
LAMPRECHT, Mining Engineer and Manager. Translated from the German.
Illustrated by Six large Plates, containing Seventy-six Illustrations.
175 pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

=Contents.=

Preface.--=I., Causes of Pit Fires:= 1, Fires Resulting from the
Spontaneous Ignition of Coal; 2, Fires Caused by Burning Timber; 3,
Fires Caused by Fire-damp Explosions.--=II., Preventive Regulations:= 1,
The Outbreak and Rapid Extension of a Shaft Fire can be most reliably
prevented by Employing little or no Combustible Material in the
Construction of the Shaft; 2, Precautions for Rapidly Localising an
Outbreak of Fire in the Shaft; 3, Precautions to be Adopted in case
those under 1 and 2 Fail or Prove Inefficient Precautions against
Spontaneous Ignition of Coal. Precautions for Preventing Explosions of
Fire-damp and Coal Dust. Employment of Electricity in Mining,
particularly in Fiery Pits. Experiments on the Ignition of Fire-damp
Mixtures and Clouds of Coal Dust by Electricity.--=III., Indications of
an Existing-or Incipient Fire.--IV., Appliances for Working in
Irrespirable Gases:= 1, Respiratory Apparatus; 2, Apparatus with Air
Supply Pipes, (_a_) The Bremen Smoke Helmet, (_b_) The Mueller Smoke
Helmet, (_c_) The Stolz Rescue Mask; 3, Reservoir Apparatus: 4, Oxygen
Apparatus. The Schwann Respiratory Apparatus. The Fleuss Respiratory
Apparatus. The Improved Walcher-Gaertner Pneumatophor, (_a_) The Single
Bottle Apparatus, Instructions for using the Pneumatophor, Taking to
Pieces and Resetting the Apparatus ready for Use; (_b_) Two Bottle
Apparatus (Shamrock Type). The Neupert Rescue Apparatus (The Mayer-Pilar
System).--=V. Extinguishing-Pit Fires:= (_a_)Chemical Means: (_b_)
Extinction with Water. Dragging down the Burning Masses and Packing with
Clay: (_c_) Insulating the Seat of the Fire by Dams. Dam Building. Dam
Work in the Fiery Pits