A lump of coal minus a canary - December 30th - TimeGhost of Christmas Past - Day 7 

So, the year is almost over... it's a Monday, so many of you might be at work. How was 2019 and how do you hope that 2020 is going to be? For us at TimeGhost it has been a very exciting year indeed. WW2 grew both in scope and viewership, Between 2 Wars is _almost completed_ and we welcomed close to 2,000 new recruits to the TimeGhost Army www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory And all of us, you guys included need to thank them for all the content we were able to bring to you in 2019. Because like nations depend on their defense forces to maintain their independence, we depend on the TimeGhost Army to keep fighting the good fight of education and entertainment. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We look forward to take all of this even further in 2020 as WW2 grows ever more complex, Between 2 Wats concludes, and we come out with new exciting series' here on the TimeGhost channel. RULES OF CONDUCT STAY CIVIL AND POLITE we will delete any comments with personal insults, or attacks. AVOID PARTISAN POLITICS AS FAR AS YOU CAN we reserve the right to cut off vitriolic debates. HATE SPEECH IN ANY DIRECTION will lead to a ban. RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, OR SLAMMING OF MINORITIES will lead to an immediate ban. PARTISAN REVISIONISM, ESPECIALLY HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR DENIAL will lead to an immediate ban.

As a software developer I am glad that I only risk breathing lethal gas when my coworker has Mexican for lunch.

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or - less accurately - as songbirds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by the arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching, amongst other features specific to their evolutionary history in Australaves *Wikipedia

When I was 18 I had my first proper job as an electrician to the " skaramangka hellenic shipyards " back then they was proud of not suffering a fatal accident of 5 continuing years ( in comparison with other ship yards were serious accidents was acquiring in daily basis) That had become possible thanks to the " fire prevention team " that was responsible for anything that could cause an accident,they Also had the power to fire a worker if he didn't follow the safety regulations ,some been almost military like ( for example no worker was allowed to enter a ship alone- the smaller possible number was two ) For me working there was an eye opening experience, first of all as a kid was afraid of height something that the shipyards helped me to get over , I was overweight and again working in the shipyards helped me adopting a more healthy lifestyle, and for first time I experienced camaraderie and be proud of achieving something big like a warship or something definitely worth it every moment there Happy new year guys and keep up the great work you doing there

My grand father was a coal miner in Alabama. I heard many stories of accidents and other issues. He was in the mines in the twenties, thirties, and forties. Starting as a mucker, the lowest job, he retired as the manager of two mines called Thermal Number one and Thermal number two. My mother, raised in coal town used to talk about the fear that went through the community when you heart the big steam horn that signaled accidents in the mines. Explosions were not uncommon. It was soft coal mining so tunnel collapses were not uncommon. My grandfather, who was a very law abiding sort, told me he would rather I became a bank robber than go into the mines. Edit: I should add that working your way up from a mucker to eventually managing a mine, was not a common thing, but he had gotten two years of engineering school before going into the mines, making him highest educated miner working at that level in the mines.

Let us observe a moment of silence for all the little birds who lost their lives saving people underground.

Indy, workin' in the coal mine Goin' down, down, down Workin' in a coal mine

General Entrapment! Pfft! I'll never understand how he got that promotion.

It wasn't just the canaries that were phased out in Coal Mines in Britain in the 1980's...it was the mines themselves. The Thatcher led Government pursued an aggressive policy of closure, and as mining town communities were decimated, the miners reacted with desperation to keep them open as members of the National Union of Miners under Arthur Scargill. It was a tragic and divisive era of British industrial and social history.

I live in middle Tennessee, where there used to be a lot of coal mining. According to a small museum in the area, the rats that naturally moved into the tunnels were often useful early warnings as well, even with carbon monoxide detectors and methane lamps.

I'm surprised it took so long. On ships we had been using instruments to test enclosed spaces for a long time by then.

I didnt die of gas poisoning in a coal mine this year. So it was a good year!

If anyone lives near Chicago, Illinois, USA, or goes there on vacation, make sure you visit the Museum of Science and Industry. They actually have a working coal mine you can go down into. Yeah, my first time down that elevator didn't bother me a bit. Nope. No sir. Not a bit. MOMMY!!!!! ;)

I love your series

I'm from a coal mining family sad our history is rarely told thank you Indy

Gives new meaning to "The Police" song "Canary in a Coal Mine".

I think the use of canaries to detect gas in mines goes back much earlier than 1911. They were being used for this purpose in the 1700s and 1800s as well.

Mine was alright. I ended up in a steel works factory which is nice but pay is eh cant complain

I even had a bird related thing at work: a flying rat (aka Pigeon) left a full size imprint on the window after it flew head on into it. The animal survived.

Happy Universal Holiday! I made that one up. :)

That’s why in you’re house if you heat this way the gas has no smell but there is something they do to it to make it smell like garbage I know this because I had a gas leak Good video and greetings to. All from the USA

Happy new year to you all. Great job as always.

I didn’t realize the practice of taking canaries into mines only started in 1911. I thought miners had been doing it for centuries.

My father dug coal alongside his father. If WWII hadn't come along and my father hadn't been able to fulfill his dream to fly planes, I would have been digging coal alongside both of them. That's all there was in that one mule town in southwest pennsylvania.

Thanks for all the work you all do. Always fascinating!

And again such an educational and interesting episode. 👍 The bird thing is btw one of the most asked questions in the show-mine i am working in summer as a guide. This and where they went when they had to do " their business" 😅 Birds where never used in our mine (since it is a silver mine from the 1400 in central europe) but it is funny how this detail about mineworking seems to be stuck with people. Also you guys got me yesterday with my homework and now with my actuall work... i got the feeling you are really haunting me 😂

About coal mnes - I remember the slag flood that took out almost all of the children in Aberfan Wales. Made me very sad to wake up to hear reports of this disaster before going to school that morning. I've always remembered that happening with great sadness. It happened just a few days after by birthday in 1966.

My work year ends tomorrow afternoon, because my departmental manager sees perfect logic in us working on days in which no other department is open (because they have lives and sense) and so all we can do is defer work until they get back. After that, I'm off for what seems like forever (and possibly have an interview for another, more sane department during that). Happy New Year, everyone.

My work year was pretty terrible, chained to my desk, many people sitting in close proximity, but very having very little face to face interaction, nevermind over the phone. I liken working in an office on a pc to many different aspects of working conditions that unions fought to improve. What is strange is that the conditions of working in an office are not obviously bad, but they are bad. Air quality and oxygen levels in LEED certified buildings are bad, sitting at a desk for long periods of time without a break is not physically demandung, but leads to atrophy of muscles and exhaustion which is just as bad if not worse than the exhaustion suffered by physically demanding jobs, and the mental demands caused by multitasking alone causes stress that outstrips anything experienced in the workplace I would say 15 + years ago. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Especially since unions don't exist in offices.

I learned through my wife's vet tech schooling that birds were used because they are more efficient. A bird will use around 90% of the oxygen they breath in, where as humans are around 70% efficient.

..my Chistmas present is finding you again Indy another Great series dude!!...happy holidays to you N yours...(love your stove btw!) :D

Interestingly I learned this from programming. We have things called canary tests and canary releases. Canary tests check to make sure testing will work properly. Canary release is releasing a new version to a small group of users to check there aren't any major issues.

Thanks for the year(s) Indy and the crew! Keep doing the great job!

I wish you a null or at least small telephone bill, Indy!

16 hours, and what d’ya get Another day over and deeper in debt

My work year was slowish as the Canadian Oil and Gas sector(Steel pipe bender I is.) continues on despite the politics. Slow for the winter (used to twelve hour shifts Monday to Friday and a 8 hour shift Saturday not 8 hours shifts all winter) and then just as Christmas roles up, We get swamped. So Cool!! Awesome. But why the fuck now!!!!

Indy, firedamp was and is still a major hazard for miners.

I'm retired, so, every day is Sunday and no day is Monday.

It is flabbergasting that they still had cannaries in coal mines in 1986! People in offices where using IBM microprocessors yet the poor coal miners relied on a bird for safety. It shows how much the rich owners valued the life of the workers.

"Canary in the coal mine" actually makes sense now

Tempted to temporarily change my youtube name to Davy Lamp

My working year was pretty successful even though I made like no money and wasn't appreciated for the hours I put in... but I got stuff for my resume. This is modern life...

1:32 Grube anna 1 in alsdorf i lief there

Glad my December 30 birthday was in the 90s lol

😳 Making me learn new words ... geeezzz ... some people! 😆 Passerine bird : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine?wprov=sfla1

Last days of 1940

See you after Christmas See you aft Christmas See you at Christmas Which is it in the intro? I can’t figure it out.

So safety tools developed just in time to close the mines anyway. And were the tools adopted around the rest of the world? Certainly not in NZ ( check out Pike River.)

... Cool ...

Wonderful to see this being filmed in 4K, is this going to happen in future vids?

The gas equipment was less expensive than canary's. I wish I had been in their union!

The danger of carbon monoxyide is not so much asphyxiation. Unlike carbon dioxide, it is actually very _poisonous._ That means far less is needed to kill you. And the effects even linger after you are no longer exposed to it because it clings to the hemoglobin of your blood instead of oxygen. But unlike the oxygen, which disassociates from the hemoglobin when the blood cells arrive at the place where the oxygen is needed, the carbon monoxide doesn't let go.

It was probably also pretty good for the canaries..

See ya next year in 2020.

Brother, Dad, many uncles and cousins, all coal miners if the West Virginia hills.

Tweet tweet 🐦 No canary emoji. 😟 But wow it took em until 1986 to faze em out?

Culture preservation vs safety, huh? Spoken like a true

wow... 1986??? those brits like to move slowly eh?

I always wonder if you guys will update the WW2 channel intro... Why not ask the community to make some intros and then you huys decide which ones are the best?

coal mining... LEGITIMATELY THE WORST MOST DANGEROUS JOB EVER.

:)