Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later

by Robert P. Multhauf

Contributions from

The Museum of History and Technology:

Paper 7

Mine Pumping in

Agricola’s Time and Later

Robert P. Multhauf

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By Robert P. Multhauf

MINE PUMPING IN AGRICOLA’S TIME AND LATER

Coins are a source of information much used by historians. Elaborately detailed mining landscapes on 16th-century German coins in the National Museum, discovered by the curator of numismatics and brought to the author’s attention, led to this study of early mine-pumping devices.