| 1. | The miners hence worked using open flame lights instead of safety lamps.
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| 2. | Before the invention of safety lamps, miners used candles with open flames.
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| 3. | Flame safety lamps have been replaced in mining with sealed explosion-proof electric lights.
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| 4. | Another founder member was William Reid Clanny, a pioneer of the safety lamp.
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| 5. | Sir Humphry Davy discovered seven chemical elements, and invented the miner's safety lamp.
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| 6. | All other illumination was from Marsaut and Donald type safety lamps.
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| 7. | Not all the safety lamps were found, however one was found that was unlocked.
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| 8. | Samson also stated that old workings should only be accessed with a safety lamp.
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| 9. | The miners used naked lights unlike the English miners who used the safety lamps.
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| 10. | Eccles became the first municipal corporation in England to operate a motorised Miners'Safety Lamps.
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