What happened in the 1810s?
🕯️ 1810 - The invention of the Davy Lamp by Humphry Davy, greatly improving safety in coal mines.
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Further Reading
Davy lamp - Age of Revolution (ageofrevolution.org)
Miner's lamp - Pitt Rivers Museum (ac.uk)
Humphry Davy and the “safety lamp controversy” | History of science (theguardian.com)
The Miners' Safety Lamp | Eric Edwards Collected Works (wordpress.com)
The life-saving lamp: Humphry Davy's fight against firedamp (rigb.org)
Safety lamp - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
How do Davy's miners' safety lamps work? | Science Questions (thenakedscientists.com)
Miners' Safety Lamps: Keeping Out the (Fire)Damp - YouTube (youtube.com)
Humphry Davy in 1816: Letters and the Lamp (uchicago.edu)