First - Safety Fuse- Camborne, Cornwall,UK
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N 50° 13.346 W 005° 16.963
30U E 337167 N 5565855
Was the FIRST and original factory where the explosive "Safety fuse" was produced. Within the first year some 45 miles of safety fuse was produced
Waymark Code: WM15WRE
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/11/2022
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William Bickford invented the FIRST safety fuse for igniting gunpowder, an invention that saved many lives. Cornish mines did not suffer from explosive gasses, but there were many miners killed by misuse of gunpowder. Early fuses were often tubes of reeds filled with powder and were extremely unreliable. Either they exploded too early not giving miners time to get away, or took too long to ignite and killed miners who assumed the fuse had gone out.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 09/06/1831
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