Safety lamp could create a sufficient updraft that firedamp would not penetrate down the chimney. Further observations of the speed of flame fronts in fissures and passageways led him to design a lamp with fine tubes admitting the air. Sir Humphry Davy was asked to consider the problems of a safety lamp following the Felling explosion. Previous experimenters had used coal gas (chiefly carbon monoxide) incorrectly, believing it to be the same as firedamp. Davy however performed his experiments with samples of firedamp collected from pits. As an experimental chemist, he was familiar with flames not passing through gauze; his experiments enabled
Eliphalet S. Miner Rapids, Postmaster of Necedah, and justice of the peace. A Republican, Miner was affiliated with the National Union Party while he was in the Assembly. Eliphalet S. Miner Eliphalet S. Miner was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Miner was born on March 20, 1818 in Madison, New York. He settled in what is now Grand Rapids, Wisconsin in 1841 before moving to Necedah, Wisconsin in 1850. There, he went into the lumber business with John T. Kingston. Miner died on February 9, 1890. Miner was a member of the Assembly from 1865 to