Gavin Purdon has taken a deep dive into the many disputed truths surrounding a desperate midnight pit shaft rescue mission ...

Prior to the 1920s, miners wore a soft cap made of cloth or canvas with a leather brim and lamp bracket to hold their light. But in 1919, Edward D. Bullard of San Francisco, California developed the ...

In 1815, after many miners were killed in several explosions in north-east England, Humphry Davy was asked if he could make a light for miners ... His prototype lamp is shown above.

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 ...