Newton's lantern slide catalogue: section 7 -- Industries and Manufactures (circa 1920)
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\ 43,'Museum Street, London, W.C.l. 833 1 B VG . ( MINING MACHINERY. Messrs. Newton have pleasure in publishing this extremely interesting group of pictures kindly supplied by Messrs. Holman Bros. 6 6 * Coloured Slides, 6s. 6 d. each. Holman Hammer Drill. Slate Quarrying, North 2 3 4 5 8 9 Wales. Drill, Slate Quarrying, North Wales. Hammer Drills, Slate Quarrying. Hand Hammers, Quarrying. „ Hammer Drill, Quarrying. ® Quarrying with Holman Hammer 7 Holman Hammer Drills, Quarrying, Operated by Holman Portable Compressor. Hanlmer Drills. . Stopping. Hammer Drills. Cutting Dimension Slate. Road Rippers and Portable Compressor. „ Hammer Drills. Tin Mining. J2 Deep Hole Drilling in an open cast. West Africa. 13 Holman Hammer Drill with Kaffir Operator. South African Mines. •• Hammer Drill with Kaffir Operator. South African Mines. A Q E AMONGST THE SLATE MINES OF NORTH WALES. J. C. Burrows, F.G.S., F.R.P.S. Plain Slides, Is. ; Beautifully Painted 5s. each. Printed Reading, 6 d. 10 11 15 Plain Slides, 2s. each. Holman Hammer Drills with 1 General View of Oakeley Slate Quarries. 2 Entrances to Oakeley Underground Chambers. " Underground Chamber, showing Pillars. ’ Underground Chamber, showing 86 feet Ladder. 5 Working Sides of Chamber from Ladders. 6 Fixing Stays and Ropes to erect long Ladder. 7 Man with Light Inspecting Roof of Chamber. £ . on Top of Forebreast of Chamber. 9 A Mill at the Oakeley Slate Quarry. 10 Entrance, Workings, Votly and Bowydd Slate Quarries. 11 Drawing Slate Waggons up Incline by Water Balance. Jo OP*®* 11 * 5 to Daylight in Llechwedd Quarry. 13 Method of Securing Roof in Llechwedd Quarry, 14 Stairway in Worked-out Chamber in Llechwedd Slate Quarry. 15 A Deep Chamber in the Llechwedd Quarry. 16 Underground. Drilling, Pillaring and Splitting Holes. 17 Top of Forebreast, Showing Men at Work. 18 Type of Timber Truss Bridge, Spanning Chamber. 19 View of Bottom of Chamber from Bridge above. 20 Miners preparing Ground for Rock Men. 21 Slate Mill, Floor 5, showing Machinery. 22 Squaring Slabs of Slate. 23 Slate Spitting and Dressing. 24 Shipping Slate at Portmadoc. 25 Portmadoc Railway, 231-inch gauge. 26 Slate ready for use. For " 00511 Mining " and ” Tin and Copper Mining " see “ Geology,” Section 4 of this Catalogue. For “ Granite Quarries,” see page 844. APL THE DIAMOND MINING INDUSTRY. Beautifully Coloured Slides, 7s. 6d. each. Plain Slides, 2s. each. 1 Early prospectors under Canvas. | » at work, 1870. 3 Mine rope and road ways, 1872. 4 Kimberley. Market Square. [Floors i V- “1 ci ‘y of shacks, and the Washing 6 Washing and Puddling Machine, 1872. 7 The Mine with cobwebs of wire ropes. 1873 8 East Face of the Mine. Winding apparatus worked by Mules, 1874. 10 Vaal River, 1874. . 11 Puddling Machine and dredger-on Ox Wagon 13 Thrashing Floors by Steam Engine ' 14 Hand Washing. 1876. 15 View of the Schuller Mine, 1880. 1® Sydney on Vaal. Break-water. 1880. 17 Blasting. 18 Effects of Blasting. A Huge Pit. 19 An Open Cut or Pit. 20 No. 2 and 3 Mine, showing thin wall dividing 21 No. 3 Mine from the top of No. 2. 22 No. 2 Mine showing tunnel connecting No. 3. 23 View qf the Railway to Kimberley. 24 Puddling Machine. Close up view. 25 Surface workings. 26 Extensive view of one of the Mines. 27 Rope tram-way. General view. 28 „ „ Close up view. 29 Tram-way across the Floors. 30 Depositing Floor. 31 Mining Machinery for Washing and Crushing. 32 Washing Plant, Engine House and Slack heaps. 83 General view of Mine Shaft and Compounds. 84 Washing and Crushing Machinery. Inside. 35 Washing Machinery. Inside showing vats. ' 36 Pulsating Machinery. Inside. 37 Searching Gravel in the Vaal River. 38 Convicts searching Gravel. 39 Searching Tables. 40 Heap of rough Diamonds. 41 Rough Diamonds. Examples. 42 The Compound. General view. Morning Toilet. Washing Day. Bread Waggon. Dinner time. Types of Kaffirs. [Diamonds. , Searching Kaffirs for concealed 49 Uncut Diamond showing squares. Photo- micrograph. >> >• .. triangular crystals. _ , , Photo-micrograph. UuIIinan Diamond, showing one of the great cleavage planes. • « •> After first polishing. it ,, After splitting and finished specimens. a „ As finished. >> n compared with other famous Diamonds. Sorting Diamonds. Polishing and Setting. 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 London 57