X-Nico

unusual facts about Safety lamp


Safety lamp

Even after the introduction of safety lamps this was still essential information, see Trimdon Grange for details of an accident where pressure was involved.


Halde Rheinpreußen

In autumn 1999, the artist Otto Piene, co-founder of the ZERO group, presented his idea of a mining lamp memorial called Geleucht for the first time.

Pellistor

The pellistor was developed in the early 1960s for use in mining operations as the successor of the flame safety lamp and the canary.

Tyneside

Tynesiders may have been given this name, a local diminutive of the name "George", because their miners used George Stephenson's safety lamp (called a "Georgie lamp") to prevent firedamp explosions, rather than the Davy lamp used elsewhere.


see also