National 5 History: Unit 2 Changing Britain- Coalmining
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- COALMINING
- Dangers of coal mining
- Floods
- Steam powered pumps
- Cave ins
- Wooden pit props replaced by hydraulic metal pit props by 1900
- Poor Ventilation
- One shaft mines banned
- Ventilation fans from 1860s onwards
- Trap doors kept air moving
- Gas Leaks
- Davvy Safety lamp invented 1815 shows harmful gases by changing flame colour
- Ventilation fans
- Could be poisonous
- Could ignite and cause explosions
- Accidents transporting Coal
- Steam engines pulled hutches on rails 1844 onwards
- Wire rope used from 1850
- Steam powered winding engines
- Floods
- Jobs in coalmines
- Hewer
- The actual coal miner usually the stronger, male workers
- Putter
- Younger boys and girls had the job of hauling coal carts through the mines
- Trapper
- Usually the smallest, youngest workers. Sit and open & close trap doors to ventilate mines, sometimes doing this for 12 hours at a time
- Bearer
- Women and older girls who carried coal to surface. Usually climbing ladders with coal on their backs
- Hewer
- COALMING ACTS
- Mine act of 1842
- Stopped women & children under 10 working underground
- Inspectors appointed to enforce the act
- All boys under 15 banned from operating winding equipment
- Mining Act of 1862
- Single shaft mines illegal
- Mining Act of 1872
- Mine managers need certificates to prove they are trained
- Mine act of 1842
- Dangers of coal mining
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