1813/12/31 by William Reid Clanny · 2 citations
Health Professions · Engineering · #Disaster Response and Management #Coal #Coal mining #Humanity #Mining engineering #Forensic engineering #Law #Environmental science #History #Waste management #Engineering #Political science
paper · doi:10.1098/rstl.1813.0027
openalex publication_date 1813/12/31 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract The many dreadful explosions of fire-damp, or inflammable air, which have occurred in the extensive and well regulated coal mines of this district, in the course of the nine years during which I have resided in the county of Durham, have often excited my most serious attention ; and latterly these explosions have caused the death of so many industrious people, that no individual, possessed of common humanity, can look on the subject with indifference.