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Description: | A photograph of an etched drawing of a Whimsey Engine used in the mining of the Staffordshire Thick Coal Seam. The engraving clearly shows how the engine moved the winding gear using a simple pulley arrangement. The appertures look to be too small for people. It is more likely that they were used for mining euipment. The winding gear to the far left of the picture looks like it has a bird cage on the end. Birds were commonly used to test the air underground for poisonous gases. The cage may also have been used to haul up small quantities of coal. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Permission to copy refused (13th April, 2005). | Subjects: | Coal mining | Temporal: | c1850 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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