Police are asking for help finding a 1900s-era coal miners lamp that was removed from a historic site in Banff National Park.

Coal, as the chemist Sir Humphry Davy observed in his 1818 book describing the development of this Davy Safety Lamp, was at the heart of much of early 19th-century England’s industrial progress.

In the 19th century mining was a very dangerous business: miners had only basic tools and worked by open candle flame. Down the coal mines there were places where there was a high concentration of ...

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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 are asking for help finding this 1900s-era coal miners lamp ...

ALTHOUGH a period of 109 years has elapsed since Sir Humphry Davy gave to the world the first wire-gauze safety lamp, the mesh of the gauzes in use to-day is identical with that adopted in the ...

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.

Little miner's lamp handmade from a spent cartridge shell. Made and used by my cousin Ernest Jones when, as a World War 2 prisoner of war, he was forced to work in the copper mines at Helmstedt, ...