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Galloway continues with his experiments into the influence of coal dust in colliery explosions, this time using a larger apparatus than the one used in his earlier experiments. He relays details of colliery explosions that took place in Risca, Penygraig [Wales] and Seaham [Durham, England], and explains that 'for the purposes of the present paper I visited Risca Colliery on the 24th of October, and Seaham Colliery on the 24th of November, and I have had the rare opportunity of becoming thoroughly conversant with every circumstance connected with the Penygraig explosion, and with the events which immediately preceded and accompanied its occurrence.' For a revised version of this paper, see PP/1/42.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Includes one page of diagrams relating to colliery explosions.

Subject: Geology / Chemistry / Physics

Received 30 May 1881 / November 17 1881. Revised 10 February 1882. Communicated by R H [Robert Henry] Scott.

'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III'.

A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. No. III'.

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AP/61/4
Earliest possible date
1881
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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70 pages
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Manuscript
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Sir; William Galloway

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Sir; William Galloway, Paper, 'On the influence of coal-dust in colliery explosions. Number 3' by W [William] Galloway, 1881, AP/61/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_61_4/paper-on-the-influence-of-coal-dust-in-colliery-explosions-number-3-by-w-william-galloway, accessed on 09 February 2025

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