Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later
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Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later is a paper by Robert P. Multhauf, numbered Paper 7 in Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology. Elaborately detailed mining landscapes on 16th-century German coins in the National Museum led to a study of early mine-pumping devices. The paper says that the habit of heavy reliance on a single source has led to a rather drastic over-simplification of the history of Medieval and Renaissance mining techniques in Europe.
The history of the technology of mining, as distinguished from metallurgy, is said to be largely a history of mechanization. Agricola describes a crank-driven piston pump, calling it a new machine invented ten years earlier. Although the full development of the Stangenkunst came later, it was apparently introduced in Agricola's time, and its introduction to the Erzgebirge has been put as early as 1550. The famous Swedish engineer Christopher Polhem built at Falun in 1694 a water-powered conveyer system which brought the ore from the point of origin in the mine to the smelter in a single operation.
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- Robert P. Multhauf
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- 17
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- English
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- Engineering
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