Diggers in the Earth
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In a Coal Mine
12:40 -
Down in the Quarries
14:27 -
Houses of Sand
15:36 -
Bricks, their Faults and their Virtues
12:00 -
At the Gold Diggings
12:30 -
The Story of Silver Mine
12:58 -
Iron, The Everyday Metal
10:45 -
Our Good Friend Copper
15:31 -
The New Metal, Aluminum
10:57 -
The Oil in Our Lamps
16:33 -
Little Grains of Salt
15:45
Diggers in the Earth (1916) is a public domain work.
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A steel pen, a silver spoon and a load of coal become starting points for understanding industrial work in Eva March Tappan's children's reader. Published in 1916, the book follows materials taken from the earth into the objects and buildings people use. Its chapters cover coal, quarry stone, bricks, precious metals, iron, copper, aluminum, oil and salt. The opening descends into a coal mine, describing the miners' lamps, roof supports, loaded cars and machinery that transformed the work.
Tappan connects large operations with familiar details. In the section on silver, she explains why tableware tarnishes, how alloys give the metal strength and how electrical plating coats a spoon. Her preface treats industry as a web of shared labor, linking workers and distant places. Readers interested in early industrial education can find both concrete explanations and a record of how a writer of the period presented mining and manufacturing to children.
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