The lamp was designed by David Irwin, a graduate of Northumbria University School of Design in North East England–a region with a rich legacy of mining–and it comes in a matte black fit for a ...

These designs included the one that went on to be called Davy lamp, a miners’ safety lamp. On November 9, Davy presented his ideas to the Royal Society, later published as the paper “On the ...

The first factory for the Guy’s Dropper, one of the most popular miners’ lamps ever made, was a back porch on Douglas Avenue. The Guy’s Dropper was a carbide lamp, which uses a mix of water ...

In the 19th century mining was a very dangerous business ... It was no longer hot enough to ignite the gas. His prototype lamp is shown above. The new safety lamp was immediately put into ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in ...

An illuminating report from Wales, on the evolution of the miners' safety lamp. This clip is from Tonight BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 18 May 1965. 1965: Fyfe Robertson on miners' safety lamps.

In the near future, however, it is highly probable, as a result of the valuable researches conducted under the auspices of the Miners' Lamp Committee, that safety lamp gauzes will have 400 ...

BANFF, Alta. — Police are asking for help finding a 1900s-era coal miners lamp that was removed from a historic site in Banff National Park. Banff RCMP received a report on Saturday that the artifact ...