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2. Evan Thomas (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   Evan Thomas (died after 1881) was a Welsh ironmonger who became an inventor and manufacturer of safety lamps for miners. He was the original proprietor of the Cambrian Lamp Works, established in Aberdare in 1860.

3. Davy lamp - Wikipedia

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   A type of Davy lamp with apertures for gauging flame height. The lamp consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. The screen acts as a flame arrestor; air (and any firedamp present) can pass through the mesh freely enough to support combustion, but the holes are too fine to allow a flame to propagate through them and ignite any firedamp outside the mesh.

4. Safety lamp - Wikipedia

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   Rimmer, D & others Clanny, Stephenson and Davy: commemorating the bicentenary of the miners safety lamps. Miners Lamp Collectors Society, 2015; Watson, W.F. The invention of the miners safety lamp: a reappraisal Transactions, Newcomen Society 70(1) 1998-9, 135-141 "to settle the disputed features of the lamps of Clanny, Davy and Stephenson"

5. Category:Welsh miners - Wikipedia

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   Category: Welsh miners. 3 languages. ... By occupation: Miners. Pages in category "Welsh miners" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.

6. Mining lamp - Wikipedia

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   A mining lamp is a lamp, developed for the rigid necessities of underground mining operations. Most often it is worn on a hard hat in the form of a headlamp. History

7. Tumble, Carmarthenshire - Wikipedia

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   Tumble developed in the 19th century to house the anthracite miners who were employed at the nearby Dynant Fach and Great Mountain collieries. [1] Tumble was once served by Tumble Railway Station, a station built on the Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway to allow the transportation of coal from the local mines to Llanelli Docks.

8. Glossary of coal mining terminology - Wikipedia

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   A similar lamp was designed by George Stephenson. [6] Day level. A level driven from the surface. Deep. Workings and roadways at a level below the pit bottom. Deputy. A "deputy overman", deputy, fireman (North Wales and parts of Lancashire) or examiner (South Wales) was an underground official who had supervision of a district and the men ...

9. Mining in Wales - Wikipedia

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   British Coal-Miners in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History (Holmes & Meier, 1980) Berger, Stefan Llafur. "Working-Class Culture and the Labour Movement in the South Wales and the Ruhr Coalfields, 1850-2000: A Comparison," Journal of Welsh Labour History/Cylchgrawn Hanes Llafur Cymru (2001) 8#2 pp 5-40. Bick, David E.