Personnel from the Bureau of Mines listen to the sound of solid blows struck by a miner on a coal rib. The Bureau of Mines offered their experimental mine near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and trained personnel to the Chief of Engineers for the development of instruments that could detect enemy mining operations during World War I.

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