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Description: | This is a Davy-type safety lamp, made after a pattern invented by Sir Humphrey Davy. He had discovered the principle of the safety lamp in the early 1800s. Often these lamps were encased in metal cylinders, giving them the nickname 'tin can Davy'. This lamp was made by John Mills and Sons of Newcastle around 1860. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East coal mining | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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