Before the steam engine, pits were often shallow bell pits following a seam of coal along the surface, which were abandoned as the coal was extracted.

Before World War II, Poland's industrial base was concentrated in the coal, textile, chemical, machinery, iron, and steel sectors.

* Before 1 October, Huntingdon Beaumont completes the Wollaton Wagonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England.

Before long, the French navy began to suffer shortages of coal.

Before printer's magenta was invented in the 1890s for CMYK printing, and electric magenta was invented in the 1980s for computer displays, these two artificially engineered colors were preceded by the color displayed at right, which is the color originally called fuchsine made from coal tar dyes in the year 1859.

Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels, wrote a play, worked as a coal miner and produced his best known novel.

Before the development of the Kent coalfields in the early part of the 20th century, house coal from the north for distribution in south London and as far afield as Maidstone and Brighton was an important source of revenue.

Before this invention, coal was mined from underground with a pick and shovel.

Before the advent of the railroads, the canal allowed shippers to cut many miles off the route from the Pennsylvania coal fields, down the Delaware, around Cape May, and up along the ( occasionally treacherous ) Atlantic Ocean coast to New York City.

Before the twentieth century, Jordanhill was a poor area, similar to neighbouring Knightswood, with mining for coal at Skaterigg.

Before the technique of injecting air into molten iron was discovered by Kelly and by Bessemer, iron was available as cast iron, a strong but brittle metal made in a blast furnace by treating iron ore with coke derived from coal, and wrought iron, a more malleable and flexible metal made by heating iron ore in a low oxygen environment in a bloomery heated by charcoal and producing " blooms ", which were 100 to 200 pound lumps of very low carbon iron mixed with slag.

Before it was interrupted, the Third Five Year Plan produced no less than 19 million tons of steel and 150 million tons of coal.

Before construction of the Trans Canada Highway and other roadways, ships and boats plied the Bras d ' Or Lake carrying coal, gypsum, marble, agricultural and forestry products from Cape Breton to the outside world, via barge through the St. Peters Canal to destinations along the Atlantic coast of North America.

Before the coal mines, the village was involved in agriculture and there were a number of farms in the village with associated cottages.

Before the 17th century the pits were bell pits and adits or day holes dug horizontally into the hill sides where the coal seam outcropped.

Before 1840, women and children were employed in coal mines and there were frequent accidents.

Before the establishment of the oil and gas industry, Brunei-Muara was the center of the coal industry, which was first mined in 1837.

Before 1850 a lightly populated rural farming area, Llwynypia experienced a population boom between 1860 and 1920 with the sinking of several coal mines after the discovery of large coal deposits throughout the Rhondda Valleys.

Before the train reached the surface, several cars broke loose and ran back down the slope of No. 4, derailing along the way and hitting a power line, causing it to arc and ignite the coal dust at the level ( below surface ).

Before attempting to extinguish a near-surface coal seam fire, its location and underground extent should be determined as precisely as possible.

Before entering politics, Kanjorski practiced law in Wilkes-Barre often helping coal miners and their widows obtain black lung benefits.

Before the railroad, wagon or pole barge was the only practical method of bringing the coal from the remote region to market.

Before the theory of continental drift, glacial deposits in Carboniferous strata in tropical continents areas such as India and South America led to speculation that the Karoo Ice Age glaciation reached into the tropics.

Before entering hibernation, most species eat a large amount of food and store energy in fat deposits to survive the winter.

Before the 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve, the banking system had dealt with these crises in the U. S. ( such as in the Panic of 1907 ) by suspending the convertibility of deposits into currency.

Before the first world war, saltpeter, collected in Chile from abundant deposits of caliche in the Atacama Desert, was the main source of nitrates in the world.

Before Little Cottonwood Canyon became popular with skiers, miners discovered deposits of silver ore within the glacial canyon.

Before large production methods are used, a new source must be identified and panning is useful to identify placer gold deposits to be evaluated for commercial viability.

Before the establishment of the Federal Reserve, the banking system had dealt with periodic crises ( such as in the Panic of 1907 ) by suspending the convertibility of deposits into currency.

Before the OLF withdrew from Asosa, it destroyed the town's only electricity generator, stole 1. 8 million Birr from the bank, most of which were deposits from the local farmer cooperatives, and took any valuable items its troops could carry.

Before the resin has hardened, screw a one-inch mahogany keel strip along the centerline.

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

Before Delaware was settled by European colonists, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay.

Before this point in time, a gradual variation in the concentration of A occurs along an axis, designated x, which joins the original compartments.

* Before the 2011 season, three new scoreboards beyond right-center field were installed: a 38-by-100-foot scoreboard in right-center field, a 17-by-100-foot video screen in center field, a 16-by-30-foot video board in right field, along with a new video control room.

Before James Brown appeared on stage, his personal MC gave him an elaborate introduction accompanied by drumrolls, as the MC worked in Brown's various sobriquets along with the names of many of his hit songs.

Before he dropped out, he was apparently recruited into al-Qaeda in 1999 along with friend Satam al-Suqami, with whom he had earlier shared a college room.

Before Europeans arrived, Māori either walked or used watercraft on rivers or along the coasts.

Before Europeans arrived, Māori either walked or used watercraft on rivers or along the coasts.

Before its downfall, the Puerto Rico railroad system operated in all major cities, with tracks and stations along most of the coastal towns and direct lines to all major sugar refineries.

Before about 1860, most bay shores ( exception: rocky shores such as those in Carquinez Strait, along Marin shoreline, Point Richmond, Golden Gate area ) contained extensive wetlands that graded nearly invisibly from freshwater wetlands to salt marsh and then tidal mudflat.

Before 1980, a section of the Commonwealth Railways Central Australian line passed along the western side of the Simpson Desert.

Before the Labour Party rose in British politics the Liberal Party was the other major political party along with the Conservatives.

Before long, Guthrie bought his own harmonica and began playing along with him.

Before World War II, while black tie was still gaining acceptance, men would wear a white waistcoat, along with other details now associated primarily with white tie, such as stiff fronted shirts.

Before leaving, Dillinger ran the wooden pistol along the bars of the cell in which the people were held and cracked that he had broken their escape proof jail with nothing but a wooden gun.

Before universal algebra came along, many theorems ( most notably the isomorphism theorems ) were proved separately in all of these fields, but with universal algebra, they can be proven once and for all for every kind of algebraic system.

Before Nice was returned to France in 1860, the Var marked the eastern border of France along the Mediterranean.

Before they surrendered to United States troops, the Mojave held lands along the river that stretched from Black Canyon, where the tall pillars of First House of Mutavilya loomed above the river, past Avi kwame or Spirit Mountain, the center of spiritual things, to the Quechan Valley, where the lands of other tribes began.

Before reaching its ending in Copper Harbor, M-26 follows a scenic stretch along Lake Superior

Before the USA had entered that conflict, the British Government had granted it a free, 99-year base lease in Bermuda, along with a similar grant in Newfoundland for what became the Ernest Harmon Air Force Base.

Image: Flooding along the Illinois River ( Before ). jpg | Late October 2009 ( before the flood ).

Before the St. Felix's Flood of 1530, it flowed north as a river from the east end of the Westerschelde, turned west a little west of Bergen op Zoom, and then west along the north edge of what is now the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal, and after that widened into an estuary.

Before 1939, Beuthen, along with Gleiwitz ( now Gliwice ), was at the southeastern tip of German Silesia.