Punch,  42 (1862), [x].

Legislation of the Safety Lamp

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Mining, Accidents, Light, Invention


    Urges that an act should be passed requiring 'every miner on descending into the coal pit, shall [...] take his Davy [i.e. his Davy lamp]'.



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