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Event name: Letters and the Lamp: Sir Humphry DavyDate and time: 05/10/2016 / 14:00Details: Professor Sharon Ruston
Woodhorn Museum. 5th October, 2:00pm
Who created the miners'' safety lamp first?
In this talk, Professor Sharon Ruston will discuss a hitherto unpublished collection of letters held in the Northumberland Archives at Woodhorn Museum.
These letters were written to the Reverend John Hodgson who has an important role in the invention of the safety lamp. They shed new light on the ensuing controversy over who first created a safe lamp, Davy or George Stephenson.
Professor Ruston is Chair in Romanticism at Lancaster University, and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press edition of The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy.
The lecture is free but please prebook on 01670 624455.
The Mining Institute also has a new exhibition on the miners'' safety lamp on display on the ground floor - free, please do call in and see it.
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