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BIRMINGHAM.—On Nov. 13 the new Mining Machinery Laboratory was opened by Mr. Evan Williams, president of the Mining Association of Great Britain. The object of the laboratory is to enable students of mining to get first-hand knowledge of the construction and mechanism of the latest coal-mining machinery, which will be supplementary to the knowledge of the operation of coal-cutting and conveying, which can only be learnt underground. The Miners' Welfare Fund has found the money for the building, and the machinery for equipment has been presented by the manufacturers themselves, no fewer than twenty-two firms having contributed of their products. The opening of this laboratory marks a further step in the policy of the Mining Department, which is to help the coal industry to regain its prosperity by providing it with trained public school and university men who, after acquiring experience underground, should be capable of contributing to the solution of some of the many problems with which the industry is confronted.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 124, 824 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124824a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124824a0