Coal mining has never been a very safe job, but it is much less risky today, thanks to an invention called the miner's safety lamp. The first lamp of this kind was invented by Sir Humphry Davy, an English chemist, in 1815. At that time, the industrial...

The Davy lamp is a safety lamp containing a candle, devised in 1815 by Humphry Davy. It was created for use in coal mines, allowing deep seams to be mined despite the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called firedamp or minedamp. Davy had...

THE MINERS' SAFETY LAMP is an icon of the Industrial Revolution every bit as powerful as Stephenson's Rocket or the Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale. It's a beautiful thing: polished brass and glass cylinder, magnetic lock, and the little naphthalene flame lit by a...

By LAURA KNOWLES New Era Correspondent FOR YEARS, Dennis D. Gaeth of Ephrata was intrigued by the beauty of Tiffany lamps, and on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, many of those gorgeous lamps will provide a very enlightening experience for collectors. "This...