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strike for four months. The Hall was successfully reopened on 2 July 1872, and was considered by many of the members to be a worthy testimonial to the memory of
Nicholas Wood. Within the building, there is a monumental statue of Nicholas Wood presiding over the library, mounted on the top of a throne in the setting of an
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Nicholas Wood, the Neville Hall within the North of England Institute of Mining Mechanical Engineers was renamed the Wood Memorial Hall. Planned to open on 5 August 1871, on the nineteenth anniversary of its foundation, the opening was delayed, owing to the joiners being on
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Newcastle but without success because of funding difficulties and problems in the planned relationship with Durham University. A revitalised campaign after his death resulted in the creation of the college - a forerunner of Newcastle University - in 1871.
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Wood was one of the group of colliery viewers and others who following the Seaham
Colliery explosion in 1852 decided to form a society to consider the prevention of accidents in coal mines. This was the
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in 1864. He was a vice president of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of its meeting in Newcastle in 1863. He also served as chairman of the employers organisation the
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in 1827; they had four sons and three daughters. In declining health for some months, he died while visiting London for medical consultations on 19 December 1865. He was buried at
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Colliery, and moved to Hetton Hall as colliery manager. He also was a partner in other local colliery companies - John Bowes and
Partners and his own Nicholas Wood and Partners.
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of 1829. He republished his book, considerably enlarged by reports and discussion of the trials, as a second edition in 1831. A third edition appeared in 1838.
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Wood, Nicholas. On the improvements and progress in the working and ventilation of coal mines in the
Newcastle-on-Tyne district within the last fifty years.
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By 1825, he had gained sufficient reputation and expertise in the design and testing of locomotives that in 1825 he was able to publish his influential book
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Wood was a member of the
Institution of Civil Engineers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers and became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1843 and a
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and steam locomotive engineer. He helped engineer and design many steps forward in both engineering and mining safety, and helped bring about the
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was made, under the supervision of the inventor. It was Nicholas Wood who actually designed the system of actuating the valves of Stephenson's
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added to the axle; most of the valve gears, including, ironically, the
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Wood, Nicholas. On the conveyance of coals underground in pits.
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Colliery as an apprentice colliery viewer under the guidance of
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Wood, N., Taylor, J. & Marley, J. Coal mining, &c.
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Wood, Nicholas. On safety-lamps for lighting coal mines.
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at which Pease was convinced to use locomotives on the
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