Miner's safety lamp

Miners used safety lamps such as this from the nineteenth century to light underground mines. In coal mines they shielded the naked flame from potentially explosive mixtures of methane and oxygen.

Location

Australia
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Queensland Museum
Salford, Manchester, England
23 November 2010
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
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Exploitation
Exploitation: taking and using things from the landscape
Mining
Dimensions
250mm
80mm
80mm

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