18th century illustration of how miners blasting. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technic

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18th century illustration of how miners blasting. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Size: 5664px × 4534px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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