200 years ago the Miners’ Safety lamp was deployed, having been invented in December 1815 by Humphry Davy working with Michael Faraday in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. From 1816, the use of ...
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 ...
1. The Davy lamp was a type of _____ ____ that Humphry Davy designed for use in coal mines. The design prevented the coal dust that hung in the air from catching fire from the lamp’s flame. Given this ...
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 ...
Calls have been made for a statue to be installed in Hebburn to honour the creator of a mining lamp which helped save thousands of lives. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Shields Gazette, ...
As scientific heroes go, Humphry Davy is up there with the best of them. He is revered not for his experiments with laughing gas or electrochemistry but because he demonstrated that science could be ...
The Davy Notebooks Project has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp ...
Sharon Ruston is lead educator on an online course: Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, Literature and the Lamp. The course runs from 30 October 2017 and is a collaboration ...
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