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United States Bureau of Mines Reports
233
Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Mines)
56
NACA Technical Reports
42
United States Geological Survey Reports
34
National Bureau of Standards Reports
30
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26
Scientific papers (United States. National Bureau of Standards)
19
United States Bureau of Mines Law Serials
19
Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining
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Ignition of Mine Gases by the Filaments of Incandescent Lamps
From Introduction: "As part of the investigations of the cause of mine accidents and of the safest and most efficient methods of handling electricity underground, the Bureau of Mines undertook a study of ignition of mine gases by the filaments of electric incandescent lamps. This bulletin describes the investigation in detail and gives a complete record of the results obtained."
Date:
1913
Creator:
Clark, H. H. & Ilsley, L. C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mining and Treatment of Feldspar and Kaolin in the Southern Appalachian Region
From Introduction: "The investigation here reported has to do only with the dikes of the southern Appalachian region, in which abundance of each mineral is as in the order given above."
Date:
1913
Creator:
Watts, A. S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Deductions from Comparisons of Gasoline and Alcohol Tests on Internal-Combustion Engines
From Introduction: "The following report is a summary of the commercial results which were obtained from 2,000 tests conducted by technologic branch of the United States Geological Survey at St. Louis, Mo., and Norfolk, Va., in 1907 and 1908, under the technical supervision of R.H. Fernald, engineer in charge of the producer-gas section."
Date:
1911
Creator:
Strong, Robert M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on the Torpedo Boat Biddle
From Introduction: "With the particular equipment used in the tests both coal and briquets were far from smokeless; consequently the data of this bulletin are applicable only by analogy to parallel operation with a coal more nearly smokeless, but nevertheless applicable with much reliability. It was the original intention to make a set of preliminary steaming tests alongside a dock (which tests furnish material for this bulletin) an to finish with a set of running tests at sea; but the running tests were never made. for lack of time and men."
Date:
1911
Creator:
Ray, Walter T. & Kreisinger, Henry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal in a Locomotive Boiler
From Object of Tests: "The primary object of the tests was to study the relative performances of the two types of briquets and of the coal, with reference to efficiency, tendency to smoke, and the ease with which steam could be kept up, when each of the three varieties of fuel was burned at several rates of combustion. Many secondary objects were in mind, the data concerning which are discussed under "Effect of varying rates of combustion," pages 20-27."
Date:
1911
Creator:
Ray, Walter T. & Kreisinger, Henry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Utilization of Fuel in Locomotive Practice
Report that investigates the possibility of conserving coal despite its extensive use in railroad locomotives across the United States. Includes an experiment using different grades of coal in an approximation of a locomotive, as well as data regarding fuel utilization and loss.
Date:
1911
Creator:
Goss, W. F. M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alaskan Coal Problems
Report discussing coal problems existing in Alaska, which Alaskan coal has high value.
Date:
1911
Creator:
Fisher, Walter L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on Locomotives
From Introduction: "For purpose of procuring data that could be using in estimating the value of the briquetting process as applied to American fuels, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with other interests, began in 1904, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, certain experiments involving the production and use of bituminous-coal briquets."
Date:
1911
Creator:
Goss, W. F. M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Fuel Values of Gasoline and Denatured Alcohol in Internal-Combustion Engines
From Introduction: "Under the terms of the act establishing the Bureau of Mines, this bureau was authorized to carry on the work of testing and analyzing fuels which had been conducted by the technologic branch of the United States Geological Survey. Therefore, the first investigations of the liquid mineral fuels logically embraced a careful series of comparative tests of gasoline and denatured alcohol in engines. The report is published by the Bureau of Mines because of the transfer of the fuel-testing investigations to this bureau."
Date:
1912
Creator:
Strong, R. M. & Stone, Lauson
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sand Available for Filling Mine Workings in the Northern Anthracite Basin of Pennsylvania
From Introduction: "This report is issued by the Bureau of Mines in the interest of safer and efficient mining methods. Its purpose is to describe the sand deposits in the northern anthracite coal field in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties, Pa."
Date:
1913
Creator:
Darton, N. H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of Explosion-Proof Motors
Procedure of Investigation: "The investigation described in this bulletin was undertaken by the Bureau of Mines as one of several investigations having for their purpose the ascertaining of methods for lessening the risks attending the use of electricity in mining. In this report the results of tests are related to the various types of protection employed which are described in detail."
Date:
1912
Creator:
Clark, H. H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Mineral Wastes
From Introduction Need of Preventing Mineral Waste: "The purpose of the Bureau of Mines in publishing this report is to call attention to some of the present waste, in the hope that knowledge of the facts may lead to an increased desire to eradicate the wastes, and to greater interest in careful, practical and scientific investigations, through which only can they be overcome."
Date:
1912
Creator:
Parsons, Charles L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Selection of Explosives used in Engineering and Mining Operations
From General Statement: "This bulletin deals with the characteristic features of the principal explosives used in mining and engineering operations, and especially with the tests that show the suitability of different classes of explosives for different kinds of work."
Date:
1913
Creator:
Hall, Clarence & Howell, Spencer P.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Humidity of Mine Air with Especial Reference to Coal Mines in Illinois
From Introduction: "The investigative work described in this report was undertaken by the Bureau of Mines under a cooperative agreement with the department of mining engineering of the University of Illinois and the Illinois and Illinois State Geological Survey. The purpose of this agreement was to provide for a comprehensive investigation of coal-mining conditions in the State, with especial reference to the possibility of lessening waste in the mining and preparation of coal and of reducing the dangers to which miners are exposed. Thus, it studied the occurrence of gas (methane) in the mines of the southern part of the State, tested the inflammability of the coal dust from many mines, examined the efficiency of the control of ventilating currents, and investigated the factors affecting the humidity of mine air with respect to their bearing on the occurrence of mine explosions."
Date:
1914
Creator:
Williams, R. Y.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Metallurgical Smoke
From Introduction: "This bulletin is published by the bureau primarily for persons who seek information on the subject of metal-lurgical smoke but are unacquainted with the technical language of metallurgy. The effort is made in this paper to present the problem of metallurgical smoke as it actually exists, without bias of any kind."
Date:
1915
Creator:
Fulton, Charles H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Houses for Mining Towns
From Introduction: "The purpose of this bulletin is to supply facts on the building of well-lighted, well-ventilated, warm, attractive, and economical houses for miners, these houses being assumed units of an industrial village or town the building and management of which are under the control of a corporation, so that special conditions hold which do not apply to houses built and owned by individual miners."
Date:
1916
Creator:
White, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Condensation of Gasoline from Natural Gas
From Introduction: "This report treats of method of preventing some of the waste of the natural gas incidental to oil mining. This method, the condensation of gasoline from natural gas, offers to the oil operator and others a profitable means of utilizing some of the oil-well gas now being wasted."
Date:
1916
Creator:
Burrell, George A.; Seibert, Frank M. & Oberfell, G. G.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining: December, 1913, to September, 1914
Bulletin issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines: "This publication is devoted exclusively to a review and abstracts of decisions based on the laws governing the rights and duties of mine owners, operators, miners, and persons trafficking in all kinds of mining properties. It includes abstracts of current decisions of all the Federal and State courts of last resort on questions relating to the mining industries" (Bulletin 61, p. 9).
Date:
1915
Creator:
Thompson, J. W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Electric Furnace in Metallurgical Work
From Introduction: "This bulletin presents a compilation of such data as seem to be useful for the information of persons who may be interested in the matter. In the application of electricity to metallurgy three kinds of processes are involved, namely, mechanical, thermal, and electrolytic."
Date:
1914
Creator:
Lyon, Dorsey A.; Keeney, Robert M. & Cullen, Joseph F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining: March to December, 1913
Bulletin issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines: "This publication is devoted exclusively to a review and abstracts of decisions based on the laws governing the rights and duties of mine owners, operators, miners, and persons trafficking in all kinds of mining properties. It includes abstracts of current decisions of all the Federal and State courts of last resort on questions relating to the mining industries" (Bulletin 61, p. 9).
Date:
1914
Creator:
Thompson, J. W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Primer on Explosives for Metal Miners and Quarrymen
From introduction: "This bulletin aims to give the metal miner and the quarryman information similar to that given the coal miner in Bulletin 17. Inflammable gas or dust is seldom, if ever, found in quarries or metal mines, and the danger from using explosives there is less than in coal mines; but, as the figures show, the number of men killed and injured yearly in accidents caused by explosives proves the need of both miners and mine officials striving to see that none but proper explosives are used and these are used properly."
Date:
1915
Creator:
Munroe, Charles E. & Hall, Clarence
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Smelting of Copper Ores in the Electric Furnace
From Introduction: "The bulletin presents, first, a critical discussion of the possibility of smelting copper ores in the electric furnace; second, the results of the experimental work of other investigators on the electric smelting of copper; third, the results of experiments by the authors on the electric smelting of native copper concentrates and sulphide copper ores; and, fourth, a comparison of the electric furnace with the blast furnace and reverberatory furnace for copper smelting."
Date:
1915
Creator:
Lyon, Dorsey A. & Keeney, Robert M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Occurrence of Explosive Gases in Coal Mines
From Introduction: "This report presents the results of an investigation begun by the Government in the summer of 1907, the investigation being started under the immediate supervision of Dr. J. A Holmes and continued under him as director after it was transferred to the Bureau of Mines in 1910, the field studies being completed in the spring of 1912. The purpose of the investigation was to obtain information on the origin of the inflammable gases in coal and the conditions under which they occur."
Date:
1915
Creator:
Darton, N. H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gasoline Mine Locomotives in Relation to Safety and Health
From Introduction: "The investigation described in this bulletin was undertaken by the Bureau of Mines in an endeavor to obtain exact information on some of the basal questions involved in the use of gasoline locomotives in mines, this investigation being one of many that the bureau has been conducting in its efforts to increase safety and efficiency in mining."
Date:
1915
Creator:
Hood, O. P. & Kudlich, R. H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library