TIL about this device for resuscitating canaries in coal mines
TIL about this device for resuscitating canaries in coal mines
museumcrush.org
This device was used to resuscitate canaries in coal mines
16 comments
-
-
Hey somebody revive that damn canary and get back to work
-
What strikes me is the use of canaries into the 1950's. Surely we could have had some other means of detecting toxic gasses besides small animals.
16 comments
It always makes me tear up about it when I read about this. People love stereotyping coal miners as hypermasculine, unfeeling work machines, but clearly at least some of them loved their bird companions and didn’t want them to die.
most even felt they owed their canary a life debt after they alerted them to the gas. the thing to understand about miners is that they were just people in mines. just imagine yourself in those conditions
In Rio de Janeiro favelas having pet birds Is a male thing, like a dad hobby. You see them taking the cages out to a walk and they care for their birds.
That’s so sweet!
Caring about animals means keeping them out of cages.
My empathy for coal miners holds until they refuse to retrain to get out of their dying industry and support politicians who fight to repeal laws meant to stop us from poisoning the world just so they can keep their admittedly shitty jobs.