# Safety Underground: Mining and the Miners' Lamp

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Frank James
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Society and politics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/safety-underground-mining-and-miners-lamp)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Mining disasters such as those at High Blantyre in 1877 or Gresford (1934) are a reminder of the hazards of mining. Work done by Sir Humphry Davy and George Stephenson on the safety lamp will be used to illustrate the problems of taking scientific knowledge out of the controlled environments of the laboratory and putting it to practice use.

## Lectures

1. [Safety Underground: Mining and the Miners' Lamp](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/safety-underground-mining-and-miners-lamp/67fe1ac27e3a) (YouTube)