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
S. Isadore Miner Woman's Council, by which she was chosen one of its delegates to the National Woman's Council. By 1904, she was converting women's social clubs into civic reform organizations. In 1900, she married William Allen Callaway. She died in Dallas, Texas, August 10, 1916, and was buried at Restland Memorial Park in that city. S. Isadore Miner S. Isadore Miner (September 25, 1863 – August 10, 1916), also known by the pen name Pauline Periwinkle, was an American journalist, poet, teacher, and feminist. She served as the first corresponding secretary of the Michigan Woman's Press Association and was a staff member