The lamp Room-Beamish colliery
The Davy lamp invented by Sir Humphry; with the iron gauze screen enclosing the wick meaning meant it could be used safely down coal mines.
Before then, miners used lamps with open flames which often ignited flammable gasses such as “firedamp” – methane.
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The lamp Room-Beamish colliery
The Davy lamp invented by Sir Humphry; with the iron gauze screen enclosing the wick meaning meant it could be used safely down coal mines.
Before then, miners used lamps with open flames which often ignited flammable gasses such as “firedamp” – methane.
390
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1
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Uploaded on November 1, 2019
Taken on July 23, 2011