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English: Miners' safety lamps used in the coalfield of north east England according to Nicholas Wood, 1858.
Devised at the request of a Sunderland society and introduced around 1815, they enabled vast deposits of coal, hitherto inaccessible, to be exploited. |
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| Source | Wood, Nicholas (1858). "On the improvements and progress in the working and ventilation of coal mines in the Newcastle-on-Tyne district within the last fifty years". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000068616670&view=1up&seq=431 |
| Author | Nicholas Wood *1795-1865) |
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