This year marks the bicentenary of the invention of the Davy Lamp. But should credit for the first miners’ safety lamp be shared? Almost two hundred years ago, on 9 November 1815, Humphry Davy, ...
Mining was a dangerous business in the 19th Century as miners had to work in difficult conditions with limited tools. Add to it the risk posed by firedamp – the common name given to a mixture of ...
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