The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Edward A. Martin - HTML preview

INDEX.

A.

Accidents, causes of mining
 "Age of Acrogens"
 Alethopteris
 Alizarin
 American coal-fields
 Ammoniacal liquor
 Aniline
 Aniline dyes
 Aniline oil, commercial
 Aniline salt
 Aniline "tailings"
 Anthracene
 Anthracite
 Artificial turpentine oil
 Asphalt
 Australian coals
 Aviculopecten

B.

Béchamp's process
 Benzene
 Bind
 Bitumen in Trinidad
 "Blower" a
 Boghead coal
 Bog-oak
 Boring diamonds
 Borrowdale graphite mine
 Bovey Tracey lignite
 British coal-fields
 British North-American coal-measures
 Briquettes

C.

Calamites, extinct horsetails
 Carbolic acid
 Carboniferous formation, the
 Cardiocarpum, fossil fruit
 Carelessness of miners
 Causes of earth-movements
 Changes of level
 Charcoal as a disinfectant
 Chemistry of a gas-flame
 Chinese coals
 Clanny's safety-lamp
 Clayton's experiments with gas
 Clay, regularity in deposition of
 Club-mosses, great height of fossil
 Coal-dust, danger from
 Coal formed in large lakes or closed seas
 Coal formation, geological position of
 Coal formed by escape of gases
 Coal-mine, the
 Coal not the result of drifted vegetation
 Coal-period, climate of
 "Coal-pipes"
 Coal-plants, classification of
 Coal-seam, each, a forest growth
 Coals of non-carboniferous age
 Coal, vegetable origin of
 Coke
 "Cole"
 "Condensers"
 Cones of Lepidodendra
 Conifers in coal-measures
 Current-bedding in sandstone

D.

Davy-lamp
 Dangers of benzene
 Darwin on the Chonos Archipelago
 Diamonds, how made artificially
 Disintegration of vegetable substances
 Disproportion in relative thickness of coal and coal-measures

E.

Early use of coal
 Effects of an explosion
 Encrinital limestone
 Equiseta
 "Essence de mirbane"
 European coal-fields
 Evelyn on the use of coal
 Experiments illustrating fossilisation

F.

Filling retorts by machinery
 Firedamp
 Fire, mines on
 First light oils
 First record of an explosion
 Flashing-point of oil
 Flooding of pits
 Fog and smoke
 Foraminifera
 Fossil ferns
 Fructification on fossil-ferns
 Furnace, ventilating

G.

Gas, coal
 Gasholder, the
 Gas, house, constituents of
 Glossopteris
 Graphite
 "Green Grease”

H.

Hannay, of Glasgow
 Heavy oils
 Humboldt's safety-lamp
 Hydraulic Main

I.

Impurities in house-gas
 Indian coals
 Insertion of rootlets of stigmaria
 Insufficiency of modern forest growths
 Ireland denuded of coal-beds
 Iron, supplies of

L.

Lepidodendra Lepidostrobi Lignite London lit by gas

M.

Mammoth trees
 Marco Polo
 Marsh gas
 Medium oils
 Metamorphism of coal by igneous agency
 Methods of ventilation
 Mountain limestone
 Murdock's use of gas
 Mussel beds

N.

Napthalin
 Neuropteris
 Newcastle, charters to
 Nitro-benzole

O.

Objections to use of coal
 Oils from coal and lignite
 Oil-wells of America
 Olefiant gas
 Orthoceras

P.

Paraffins
 Peat
 Pecopteris
 Pennsylvanian anthracite
 Persian fire-worshippers
 Pitch
 Plumbago
 Polyzoa
 Prejudice against aniline dyes
 Prohibitions of the use of coal
 Proportions of explosive mixtures
 Psaronius
 "Purifiers"
 Pyrites in coal

Q.

Quantity of coal raised in Great Britain

R.

Reptiles of the coal-era
 Resemblance of American and British coal-flora
 Retorts
 Roman use of coal
 Rosanilines, the
 Royal Commission of 1866

S.

Sandstone, how formed
 Shales
 Sigillaria
 South American coals
 Spores of lepidodrendron
 Spores, resinous matter in
 Spores, inflammability of
 Steel-mill
 Sternbergia
 Stigmaria
 Subsidence throughout coal-era
 Surturbrand at Brighton
 Sussex iron-works

T.

Tar
 Testing pits by the candle
 Texas coal
 Toluene, discovery of
 Torbanehill mineral
 Trappers

U.

Underclays
 Uses to which coal is put

V.

Vaseline
 Vegetation of the coal age
 Ventilation of coal-pits

W.

"Washers"
 Waste of fuel
 Wealden lignite
 Westphalian coal-field

Y.

Young's Paraffin Oil

Z.

Zoroastrians