These lamps were worn on soft caps that offered little in the way of protection and were mainly worn for the convenience of having a light source in front of the miner's face. Simmons Carbide Lamp, ca ...

I grew up in South Wales and was surrounded by the coal mining industry ... history which fuelled the Industrial Revolution. This lamp, designed to reduce underground explosions which claimed ...

It was a carbide lamp that lit their way underground. Our ancestors realized that burning a lamp under the ground, which is lit with tallow or oil, burns the air and life is no longer possible there.

A sculpture of George Stephenson’s miner’s lamp will be unveiled later this month. Standing 3.6m high, it will be located at the South Gate/West Moor junction, close to Dial Cottage which was ...

Chemistry students at Calvin University celebrated Halloween by detonating a line of pumpkins on the Commons lawn the day before Halloween.

Pick axes, carbide helmet lamps and an authentic coal cart filled with actual Iowa coal all tell the story of the city’s mining history. The artifacts are all part of a new museum that will open ...

With so many light therapy lamps on the marketplace, the best light therapy lamp will fit your space and bath your face to help treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD). We narrowed the list by ...

We produced almost 120,000 tonnes of tungsten in 2022, much of which was directed to the manufacture of tungsten carbide tooling ... and it’s next up in our “Mining and Refining” series.

These lamps were worn on soft caps that offered little in the way of protection and were mainly worn for the convenience of having a light source in front of the miner's face. Simmons Carbide Lamp, ca ...