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July, 1938

Early Mining Transport

Drawings and Photographs accompanying the article

Sample Description
 Mining railway illustration of about 1519 from "Der Ursprung gemeynner"
 Mining truck with four iron wheels running on rails, from "Cosmographiae Universalis" (1550)
 Mining truck illustrated by Agricola in "De Re Metallica" (1556)
 Wooden wagon and section of track stated to date from the 16th century, and to have come from the gold mines in Transylvania (Siebenburgen)

Article reproduced from a copy of the magazine held at Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.


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