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The same gallery will host works by Ryan Gander, who will create sculptures inspired by northern inventions, from Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulb to George Stephenson's Geordie safety lamp.

Again it was a result of an opened safety lamp igniting the gas.

It is a working life that has changed remarkably little in a century—no more than have the polished-steel safety lamps the miners carry to check for gas.

For it was in Newcastle in 1815 that the miners' safety lamp was first demonstrated, an entirely practical device made not for stylish appearance, but to stop miners from getting blown up.

A few months after his return, through Germany, to London in 1815, he was induced to take up the question of constructing a miner’s safety lamp.