Author: Theophile Maher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952271113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"A semiautobiographical local color novel, written in 1887 and discovered in 2018, about the coal oil manufacturing industry and the coming of the Civil War to the region, set between 1859 and 1861 in western Virginia. The novel's protagonist, a mining engineer, works closely with a Black family to organize the local mountain folk into a Union militia"--
Cannel Coal Oil Days
Author: Theophile Maher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952271113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"A semiautobiographical local color novel, written in 1887 and discovered in 2018, about the coal oil manufacturing industry and the coming of the Civil War to the region, set between 1859 and 1861 in western Virginia. The novel's protagonist, a mining engineer, works closely with a Black family to organize the local mountain folk into a Union militia"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952271113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"A semiautobiographical local color novel, written in 1887 and discovered in 2018, about the coal oil manufacturing industry and the coming of the Civil War to the region, set between 1859 and 1861 in western Virginia. The novel's protagonist, a mining engineer, works closely with a Black family to organize the local mountain folk into a Union militia"--
The Petroleum Gazette
Author: Frank F. Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Mountain State
Author: George W. Summers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Author: West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
American Lucifers
Author: Jeremy Zallen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites
Author: Leah S. Glaser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538150557
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Experts all agree that human beings can mitigate climate change by changing how we use energy for heat, light, movement, and production. Stewards of heritage sites and collections can engage the public at the grassroots level to raise awareness about the cultural and socioeconomic reasons for past choices that have contributed to climate change. This book will help cultural institutions identify ways to interpret new stories through historic places and resources, especially if staff have made the commitment to “go green.” Without place-based context, discussions about energy focus primarily on the science, and not the human experience. By reminding us of our past practices and values regarding energy production and use, historic places can inspire different ways of thinking about transitioning to different energy sources, and question the doctrine that high energy use is necessary for progress. Public interpretation can expose the vast energy infrastructure and the impact of energy extraction, production and use on place. Historic sites offer place-based contexts for visitors to interact with and think critically about the processes and the impact of energy development in, for example, a maritime village. This book synthesizes science with the humanities outside of popular media and other politicized spaces to identify different kinds of energy resources in many historic collections or sites. It supplements current calls for economic and policy changes, because as stewards of historic places, we need to do what we can in this “all hands-on deck” moment to prepare for shared stewardship of our future.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538150557
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Experts all agree that human beings can mitigate climate change by changing how we use energy for heat, light, movement, and production. Stewards of heritage sites and collections can engage the public at the grassroots level to raise awareness about the cultural and socioeconomic reasons for past choices that have contributed to climate change. This book will help cultural institutions identify ways to interpret new stories through historic places and resources, especially if staff have made the commitment to “go green.” Without place-based context, discussions about energy focus primarily on the science, and not the human experience. By reminding us of our past practices and values regarding energy production and use, historic places can inspire different ways of thinking about transitioning to different energy sources, and question the doctrine that high energy use is necessary for progress. Public interpretation can expose the vast energy infrastructure and the impact of energy extraction, production and use on place. Historic sites offer place-based contexts for visitors to interact with and think critically about the processes and the impact of energy development in, for example, a maritime village. This book synthesizes science with the humanities outside of popular media and other politicized spaces to identify different kinds of energy resources in many historic collections or sites. It supplements current calls for economic and policy changes, because as stewards of historic places, we need to do what we can in this “all hands-on deck” moment to prepare for shared stewardship of our future.
Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
The Derrick's Hand-book of Petroleum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Daily market quotations, tables of runs, shipments and stocks, oil exports, field operations and other subjects of interest and importance to the oil trade.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Daily market quotations, tables of runs, shipments and stocks, oil exports, field operations and other subjects of interest and importance to the oil trade.
The Repository
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Gas Engineer's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description