Coal Mine Tour at the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Join Theme Park Engineering and Design at Purdue on a Tour of Old Ben No. 17, a mine relocated from southern Illinois. The coal mine tour is an extra fee exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago that explores the techniques and technology of deep coal mining in Illinois.
“Touring Old Ben No. 17-a mine relocated from southern Illinois-immerses you in the vast and sometimes perilous work of mining for coal. The scene is set as the facilitator narrates your cage elevator ride into the mine. See in a flash how Davy lamps reveal unseen methane dangers. Board the work train to experience a coal miner's "daily commute." See working examples of how extraction machinery has evolved from the pickaxe to longwall machines that can carve out football field-sized sections of shale.” - msichicago.org
disclaimer filmed in very low light. Video may be too dark to see at some points.
Thank you Perdue U. and CZcams for this wonderful piece of Chicago history. Please keep it available forever.
Thank you for watching! (Purdue U.)
I did this a few years ago for my 8th grade field trip (I’m a senior rn Lol), and I ABSOLUTELY loved this exhibit, it’s not sum you get to experience it everyday and I hope to go back there soon with my boyfriend who’s not American Xd, I think he’d like it too ✨- we’re geeks for old stuff like this
I did this back in the 1980's as a kid many times.
Still remember everything, it is crazy. They didn't have those computer screens at the end though from what I remember, or if they did it was old CRT monitors.
I went here 10 years ago and I don’t know why I just randomly thought of it and searched it up.
Same 💀
I dont know why i was so excited about this as a kid
I went here in the summer of 2010, and I felt the same way as a kid.
Same
I remember doing this back in the 70s when I was a little kid. The way I remember it, the demonstration with the gas detector was last. I don't remember seeing the last room the way it is here with the computers showing the images. They may have revamped some of the rooms.
I remember I bailed on this as a kid from fear and ate candy in the waiting area
this was the first atraction in the msi. so it was basically: "hey you! come check our museum!"
after the tour...
get out we dont have another atraction.
I love that place always do the coal mine and submarine tour
“It’s a credit” 😂😂😂
On one of the first trips I took here I was selected to yell “fire in the hole” during the tour
Is this an actual mine or build specifically for the museum?
Just the museum I’m pretty sure
@@benhaushalter5067 It was built using real mine bits but it is fake. The stairs at the start take you up to the top and the elevator takes you down to ground level and inside.
My Grandpa was a coal miner
I can’t see enything
A real mine doesn't have any lights at all. This mine is adapted to be safer than the real mine that it replicates, so they don't injure or kill anyone going through it. They even tell you that an elevator in a real mine shaft doesn't have walls and a ceiling.
That’s the point
@@Toondoubloon omg i don’t remember ever watching this video lol
@@mellish-ish lol
The lighting is bad for the video. I was up there in the 60's
is it free?
The Coal Mine is an extra ticketed experience at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Here is a link to tickets. www.msichicago.org/visit/tickets/
Absolulty not.
Come to pennsylvainia, there is a few anthracite mines that you can tour
Most of this is just blackness
The camera I had at the time did not have good low light settings. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯