NEIMME: Library

Magic Lantern Slides and glass negatives

Strongroom shelf 70

Slide Box 1.  Magic lantern slides of mining in India (Burma and Lucknow during the British Occupation). 

1.                  Photograph of Indians mainly in turbans and dhoti.

2.                  Surface activity

3.                  Surface activity

4.                  Screening of coals with a home-made screen of wood

5.                  Surface activity: 20’ tripod, poss. for pumping

6.                  Surface activity: elephants moving beams

7.                  Surface activity: 20’ tripod, poss. for pumping

8.                  Surface activity: 20’ tripod, poss. for pumping

9.                  Colliery winding house (brick or stone) with metal headframe

10.              Colliery buildings with wooden headframe, chimney and heap.

11.              Surface activity

12.              Surface activity

13.              Surface activity: elephants moving beams

14.              Indian Gent. Riding a camel

15.              Indian family posing outside their house

16.              Picture of Indian countryside

17.              Openings of primitive surface workings, with Indian man seated at one.

18.              Surface activity: elephants moving beams

19.              Surface activity: elephants moving beams

20.              Colliery buildings (large stone construction) with workmen seated in foreground

21.              Indian workers operating a large manual guillotine, with workers seated performing some other operation with baskets.

22.              Manual Gin(?) operated with a vertical rotation

23.              Elephant and mahout

24.              Surface activity

25.              Surface activity: Indians mainly in turbans and dhoti

26.              Official (?) in and English jacket pouring water for Indian workers.

27.              Indians outside a dwelling with cart pulled by pony

28.              Indian workforce posed in front of colliery buildings.  Some women workers.

29-39         Slides of cartoons by Cockburn-Reynolds.  Restricted access. 

 

Box 2.

1.                  Double inlet Capel Fan

2.                  System of Coal Preparation

3.                  Tables (cracked)

4.                  Tables

5.                  Graph with the words “Heaton Winning”

 

Box 3.  Planned re-entry after firing a heavy explosive charge

Illustrating the paper by James S Carson, The Mining Engineer, v.120(1960-61),p.385

  1. Diagram

  2. Graph

  3. Plan of mine: Basinghall Syndicate.  Greenside Mine

  4. Plan of Lucy Tongue North level

 

Box 4. 

1.                  Strata

2.                  Diagram shewing Hutton and Low Main seams

3.                  Wooden props

4.                  Wooden props

5.                  Wooden props

6.                  Wooden props

7.                  Damaged metal arching

8.                  Damaged metal arching

9.                  Contorted strata in the Langsett Trench

10.              Effect of roof pressure

11.              Damage to arches

12.              Effect of roof pressure

13.              Dangerous roof conditions supported by wooden props

14.              Dangerous roof conditions supported by wooden props

 

Box 5.

1.                  Sectional geology of Moorsley, Hetton, Dawdon and Murton Collieries.  Cracked

2.                  1570’ East Level

3.                  Diagram of mist spary for coalcutters

4.                  Analysis apparatus

5.                  Timesheet

6.                  Sampling apparatus

 

Box 6.

5 glass negatives of Rising Sun Colliery, 1935, before the second shaft was sunk.  Donated by J R Wood via Hugh G. Vasey, NCB NE Area, 1977.

Box 7

6 Graphs, diagrams, and tables, apparently a continuation of Box 3.

Box 8

4 slides of horizontal tree trunk fossils

Duplicate of Box 5 slide 1

Duplicate of Box 5 slide 2

Diagram of workings

Box 9.

Timesheet

5 tables.

Method of sinking.

Box 10.

10 graphs

3 diagrams of gravity separating plant.

Box 11

Photos for 6th progress report, 27/4/1940

3 slides of pillar and stall working (negative).  Two badly damaged.

2 others shewing alternative methods of working.  One badly damaged. 

Duplicate of Box 4 slide 2

Box 12

Negatives:

6 tables

2 pictures of strata

Position of drill in face w.r.t. props

Arc wall prop arrangements

2 more photos of strata.

Shear connectors on surface.

Box 13. 

  1. Elastic shear test

  2. Ditto

  3. Outby from face

  4. Diagram, a Northumberland Colliery

  5. Diagram

  6. Diagram

  7. Diagram

  8. Graph

  9. Packing Diagram

  10. Photo: Belts

  11. Photo: Double pack

  12. Photo: packing photo

  13. Timbering Diag.

  14. “Roof breakers”

  15. Level photo

  16. Level Photo

  17. 2 diagrams of working

  18. Roof condition (photo)

  19. 15 diagrams relating to roof fractures

  20. 3 photos of rocks

  21. table

  22. Underground photos, shewing belts and outbye packing.

 

Box 14.

Winders- valves

Timbering and arching

Timbering

Kelving valve gear

Cylingder and jacket

Safety Hook Walker

Swivel thrust ball bearing

Kind_Chaudron sinking

Photo- smashed

 

Railway photo- English Electric Company- cracked

Turbine House

Transformers

Loco- cracked

Loco

Transformer diagram

Transformer

Table

Table

Printing press?

Diagram

 

Photos:

Screening plant: external

Hugh Wood & Co., Newcastle.  Screening plant, indoors

Hugh Wood & Co., Newcastle.  Screening plant, indoors

3 photos: belt system

Diagram: belt system

2 Photos of Eickhoff hydraulic machinery

Diagram of Busty Seam

3 underground photos: belt systems

3 views of Hugh wood and Co. Screening plant

2 underground photos.

Diagram of Busty Seam.