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WILLIAM N. POUNDSTONE
WILLIAM N. POUNDSTONE
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, traveling to mines across the state and teaching courses such as mining methods, ventilation, and safety to supervisors and miners. Service as a tech sergeant during World War II meant that Bill did not receive his engineer of mines BS degree from WVU until 1949.
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In 1952 he became production engineer for all of Christopher and accepted the assignment of mechanizing the mining operations by introducing continuous mining and continuous haulage. He extensively modified a new design of continuous miner -- the boring-machine miner -- and obtained several of his eventual total of 34 patents for improvements in mining equipment and the mining process.
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In addition to the extensible belt and modifications to the boring-machine type miner, Bill either personally developed or led the development, design, and/or adoption of the ropebelt conveyor, belt-conveyor rigid-bracket idlers in underground mining, self-training belt idlers, bulk rock dusting, the pressure-vessel bulk rock duster, and many other innovations for which he received patents. He led a safety-inspired, multi year effort to replace belt conveyors in underground mines with coarse-coal hydraulic haulage, developing and employing a prototype unit that operated for a number of years but ultimately did not succeed economically.
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Bill remained active outside the coal industry both pre- and postretirement. He served on numerous national committees for governmental, National Academies, and industry-council studies concerning energy sufficiency, disposal of industrial waste, unconventional gas sources, air quality, alternative energy sources, ground control in mining, and acid rain.
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