One technological advancement that allowed miners to work in extreme environments is the implementation of ventilation adits in the Comstock…
Tim Lecain goes into great depth on how technological advances have made underground mining to occur. In Butte, Montana, a…
I see the technological advances in underground mining as a band aid that keeps on getting bled through, and we…
Tim LeCain talks about dangerous problems that many hard-rock miners run into, including “subterranean flooding, heat, and ventilation” (LeCain, 37).…
“Technical obstacles quickly emerged at only 50 feet below the surface, Hearst’s miners hit groundwater and the mine began to…
For most of our history, the biggest obstacle to human deep rock mining could be summed up as “too much…
Tim LeCain explores how complex technological systems had to be created in order to meet challenges seen while mining in…
One of the biggest, and most obvious, consequences of technological advancements in mining is more efficient mining. This is evident…
Mining has always been a dangerous and hard job that for many centuries wouldn’t be able to go far below…
The Anaconda mine in the early 1900’s exemplified the growing distance between the “technosphere” and the natural environment—the improvement of…
As technological advances occur, as does progression in ability and efficiency of technologically inclined societies. In LeCain’s “Between Heavens and…
I found this reading interesting because it tied together a few of the topics we have been exploring in the…
Tim LeCain shares in his text “Between the Heavens and the Earth” a wide array of examples of how mining engineers have…
Technology is important for mining because it can be used to make the mines run deeper and make more money.…
Technological advances have made underground mining more thorough and invasive, and although miners were able to access previously deadly areas,…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth” it talked about how Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb was instrumental…
Make a hole. Make it bigger. Acquire the resources. As simple as mining may sound, it isn’t. It requires a…
In the mining world there were many advancements that were made from the beginning of the mining era to its…
As was it was put on page 38 of the reading from LeCain, ” As mines began to sink thousands…
Mining has made great advances over the years. What started as people panning for gold…
One of the serious health issues for mining at great depths is the heat and body temperature. It’s been a…
In Between Heavens and the Earth, Tim LeCain explains the dangers that come with underground mining and the many inventions…
For every large economic field, there have been technological advances assisting in their growth. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, and Singer’s…
Mining has been a staple in resource gathering for the better part of human history, as the earth itself holds…
Lecain gives us many examples of the technological advancements to mining occurring in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Namely,…
The number of deep and oxygen barren mine shafts of early 1900s mining, spurred largely by the search for the…
Technological advances, such as electricity and inventions that used electricity such as street cars, required copper based components like wires…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth,” Tim LeCain discusses the importance of copper mining at the turn of…
LeCain offers multiple explanations for how technological advances prompted the furthering of underground mining. Firstly, steam powered water pumps allowed…
HSTR 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 10/8/18 The most striking technologies of…
Technological advances for mining are another one of those technological fixes, and they create solutions to the problems that come…
One problem in many mines, specifically in Butte is running into subterranean bodies of water. A fix for this problem…
Human kind has been using the natural resources provided on earth for millions of years; however, with the advances of…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth” Tim LeCain writes about some of the challenges miners face while underground mining…
Technology provided many different new advances that allowed us to go deeper into the ground, then ever imagined. The more…
Many of us are familiar with the anxious unsettling thought of your world falling apart, that gut drop right before…
Tim LeCain explains in his book Between the Heavens and the Earth that the Butte copper mines needed to new…
The practice of mining in itself drove engineering because it forced engineers to develop safer, more efficient ways for miners…
Technological advancements in the mining industry have definitely helped the industrial powers and mass progress of the United States, providing…
Mining has been around for hundreds of years and it still is a major business today. As technology advances so…
Technological advances during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were some of the most impressive engineering feats of that…
Technological advances allow underground mining to occur by making it so that digging deep into the ground could be easier. …
As explained by LeCain, the industrial push in the United States, especially with the creation of and demand for electricity…
Thanks to the complex pumping, ventilation, and cooling systems that mining engineers created miners could better survive and work in…
Mining precious and base metals throughout American history has had a major impact on our industrialization and financial growth as…
Technological advances have helped mining go faster and safer for miners. The advances that have helped in making mining faster…
Tim LeCain explores how mining engineers developed subterranean maps, water pumps, and better spaces for human workers including a way…
Mining has always been a perilous and laborious occupation. Extremely primitive processes of extraction marked the early days of mining,…
The first technological advancement that allowed for the implementation of copper mining was Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb…
Technological advances such as water pumps, ventilation, and personal equipment made it possible for miners to go into subterranean areas…
As discussed by LeCain in “Between the Heavens and the Earth”, mining underground not only comes with a slew of…
All these technological advances definitely furthered the ability to miner deeper metals, there is still the challenge because of the…
Tim LeCain explains the influence that mining engineers had on the development of hospitable subterranean environments. Miners were required to…
LeCain stated that the absence of mining was not an option. (Pg. 25) The only option was to come up…
New technologies allowed us to mine deeper into the ground without fear of losing sight of whatever was ahead. New…
Mining has been substantial component in establishing many western territories including Montana. One of the earliest forms of a complex…
Deep in the ground not too far from here, the miners in Butte, Montana experienced work in some of the…
As the mines developed, so did the safety risks involved with them. The mines needed to be researched and understood…
Technological advances seem to be the answers to most problems of America. Take mining for example. To deal with the…
Copper production increased rapidly at the start of the 20th century, largely due to the use of electricity and for…
It was thought that “with improved maps and measurements, mining could be rationalized and systematized; obstacles could be overcome with…
One major advance described is the steam-powered pump used at the Comstock Lode. Once the miners had dug deep enough,…
Mining engineers repeatedly used technology in different ways to “surpass the subterrestrial environmental barriers to human survival” (LeCain, 47). The…
With the advancement of mining engineering and technology, cities like Butte became a huge draw for people like Marcus Daly,…
Miners in Butte, Anaconda, and elsewhere have had to adapt to a variety of challenges including mapping subterranean landscapes, underground…
If man has shown nothing else, it is his willingness and ingenuity in invention when exerting his will over nature.…
In the reading, LeCain examines how science has impacted mining in extreme environments. He notes that “With improved maps and…
The ever-increasing rewards of deep subsurface mining necessitated the invention of new methods and technology to allow for mining to…
Due to the perilous and risky nature of mining, many technological measures are necessary in order to make the process…
Technological fixes are often used to counteract consequences of human development. This can be seen in the impact of the…
LeCain writes on the engineering advances that allowed men to mine in the most extreme depths. When the miners ran…
Technological advances allowed underground mining to occur because they allowed mining companies to push underground mining to its absolute limits,…
There were a few technological advancements that allowed underground mines to dig deeper and thrive as they got deeper into…
The progress made in the safety and quality of mining was almost always to allow miners to reach further…
Tim LeCain explains many techniques that mining engineers use in order to overcome the issues that arise with large scale…
As the mining industry continues to develop environmental roadblocks are present problems in the work force. Luckily for the companies…
This week’s reading of “Between the Heavens and the Earth” sheds light on the advancements in technology which made underground…
As the text explains, when mines first started, little technology was needed to accomplish the task. However, the great challenges…
In LeCain’s “Between the Heavens and the Earth”, he discusses various technological advances that allowed for underground mining in addition…
Getting tons and tons of metal ore from deep below the surface of our Earth is no easy task. Humanity…
In LeCain’s Between the Heavens and the Earth, there is a lot of discussion of what technology benefitted mining throughout…
Copper was critical in a lot of the new technology and infrastructure emerging during the time of the later…
With the nineteenth and twentieth century came the rise of new powerful machines and techniques that allowed mining deep into…
Early mining technologies like steam-powered water pumps, lifts, ventilation systems, and oxygen masks allowed underground mining to occur. It seems,…
“With improved maps and measurements… obstacles could be overcome with powerful new machines and techniques”. (Lecain, p.36) These maps and…
Audrey Scott 10/8 I’m guessing pretty much everyone in this class knows something about the detrimental history of mining, and…
Technological advances have done so much for our modern world there is no question that technological advances applied to the…
Early mining engineers face an incredible amount of challenges to make technological advances that would help make mining safer for…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth,” LeCain explains how technological advances made by mining engineers made it possible to…
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Technology in the underground mining industry has made way to many advances in the industry. “During the late nineteenth and…
Underground mining is a practice that has been heavily employed since the industrial revolution to provide the necessary metals and…
Technologies advanced were directly linked to mining because they relied on each other. Advancements in electricity needed copper to work.…
One of the most notable (and often times noted notorious) time periods in mining history was the California gold rush…
Mining is by no means an easy feat. Countless people have died in mines since they were created. In most…
In Mass Destruction, Timothy LeCain describes how mining technology made quantum leaps in the decades following Thomas Edison’s development of…
The development of mining has been incredibly beneficial for the people of Montana, however it does have a great deal…
In the article, LeClain brings up the need for copper in the United Sates and points out the benefit it…
There were many technological advances made by mining engineers that allowed the working miners to push into the treacherous depths…
Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: After reading this article and understanding the benefits and consequences if mining. I doubt I will…
Underground mining has been a staple of gold, silver, and coal mining that has seen lots of development since the…