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, ...

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.

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Davy lamp was made by J.W. Queen ...

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 ...

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 ...

An event is being held to mark 200 years since the Davy Lamp transformed the safety of mining. Until 1815, open candles were used and ignited frequent methane explosions. Sir Humphry Davy's invention ...

A scientist and chemist whose inventions revolutionised life for generations to come is being celebrated in an exhibition of items stored by Northumberland County Council's Archive, including his ...

Colophon: London : Printed by Stewart and Murray ... Contents v. 1. Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy / by his brother, John Davy -- v. 2. Early miscellaneous papers from 1799 to 1805, with an ...

Sir Humphry Davy fascinated rapturous crowds when he delivered his lectures in chemistry to the Royal Institution in London. In the late 1700s and early 1800s and in sumptuous surroundings, Davy would ...