Sheffield’s ‘Lady with the Lamp’ has been honoured with a Blue Plaque to commemorate her outstanding contribution to safety in engineering during the 20th century. Did you know with a Digital ...

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Police are investigating a fatal mining incident that claimed the life of a 56-year-old miner on Saturday at Thomas Island, Puruni. According to a police press release, the incident, which occurred at ...

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ALTHOUGH a period of 109 years has elapsed since Sir Humphry Davy gave to the world the first wire-gauze safety lamp, the mesh of the gauzes in use to-day is identical with that adopted in the ...

The fact that sodium could have been named Sodarchium, the moment when self-experimentation revealed nitrous oxide alleviated pain, and the pioneering 19th Century scientist whose contribution to the ...

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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 ...