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Jan 28, 2020 · Lighting the pre-electric home. Before gas or electric lighting were invented, the greatest light source indoors usually came from the fixed fire in the grate. Home activities revolved around the hearth, with candlelight or oil lamps providing dim (but mobile) light around the home.
This system was patented (UK 344812/1929) and was the basis of the system used on Type 6 lamps today (fig. 8). In the 1930’s electric lighting was being used increasingly in mines, which easily surpassed flame safety lamps in brightness.
Using key objects from the collection, Mark Carlyle, Curator of Industry at the National Coal Mining Museum for England, offers a visual history of the miners’ safety lamp. Coal miners were frequently at danger from explosive mixtures of methane gas in the atmosphere of the mine.
One of the few examples of modernist architecture in Glasgow, it was designed by Cornelius Armour as the Glasgow HQ of the British Luma Co-operative Lamp Co, the first international co-operative factory for the manufacture of electric lamps.
Meet London's last lamplighters, five men whose job it is to maintain London's last remaining Victorian gas lamps, a tradition which dates back to 1812 and one steeped in history.
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Nov 6, 2017 · The first electric lights were developed in the late 1870s by different people across the world. In Britain, Joseph Swan led the charge. He installed his lights at Cragside House in Northumberland in 1878.
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Stephenson’s lamp continued to be used in the north-east of England throughout the 19th Century (1800s) until the introduction of electric lighting. Today, the safety lamp has been replaced by electric torches.
