After around 1915, miners debated which technology they favored to light their work underground, a carbide lamp or a battery light. Both were superior to candles and oil lamps that would blow out when ...

The depth, the dark, and the dangers inherent in mining created a uniquely dangerous working environment for the miner. Miners faced death from collapsing mines, oxygen deprivation, and haulage ...

Lighting has played a critical role in the safety of underground coal and metal mining for several thousand years. Challenges in an underground mine environment include dust, confined spaces, surfaces ...

Coal miners seldom get glory. Cowboys, astronauts and police officers do, but how many boys strut around in coal miner helmets? In my imagination, miners are grim and unsmiling, with futures as bleak ...

You have seen them in antique stores, especially in mining towns: tarnished brass cylinders with a reflective dish on one side and a bracket for clipping them onto a ...

Calcium carbide is created by heating a lime and carbon mixture in an arc furnace to a temperature of between 3,632 to 3,812 degrees. Calcium carbonate is a fairly hard substance that reacts violently ...

I first saw carbide lamps in the tool exhibit in the Vigo County Historical Museum. I did not know what they were — light bulb sockets, perhaps? So I did some research and found that the carbide lamps ...

“The fun is in the hunt. The hunt for mine lamp parts can be almost as hard as finding a lamp itself.” Colin Gatland Colin Gatland loves an expedition. As a professional photographer, caver and rock ...

Coal miners seldom get glory. Cowboys, astronauts and cops do, but how many boys strut around in coal miner helmets? In my imagination, miners are grim and unsmiling, with futures as bleak as the ...

NORTH-EAST artist George Robson has given the organisers of a light festival a traditional miner’s helmet to mark the completion of one of four spectacular installations destined for the event. It was ...

Miners wearing safety hats and Edison lamps preparing to enter mine. Harwick, PA, 1953. Prior to the 1920s, miners wore a soft cap made of cloth or canvas with a leather brim and lamp bracket to hold ...

Coal miners seldom get glory. Cowboys, astronauts and cops do, but how many boys strut around in coal miner helmets? In my imagination, miners are grim and unsmiling, with futures as bleak as the ...