Still, the canary in the coal mine was an important phase in the industry. As Pollard wrote, the oxygenated bird cage was “cruel to the animal, but it is representative of an innovation in ...

Vonnegut mentioned his “canary-bird-in-the-coal-mine theory” again in a 1973 interview with Playboy. Artists, he explained, ...

As every one knows, no canary bird cage is complete without a piece of cuttlefish bone for Dick or Pete to sharpen of cleanse his bill on. The cuttle bone contains a large amount of siliceous matter.

Luis Pollard, curator at the Museum of Science and Industry, introduces the 'canary reanimator cage' used to help the canary in the coal mine as his favorite item in the many collections.

Jabari Henry smacked a 414-foot solo homerun in the bottom of the third inning Thursday night to become the American ...

Fleeing from the carabinieri, they threw a cage of canaries from the car. Stopped and arrested, they had just stolen copper, iron, and... turtles. The two men arrested by the carabinieri from the ...

Following a deadly explosion in a Welsh coal mine in 1896, an engineer called John Haldane invented a type of bird cage that allowed canaries to accompany miners into the depths. The small ...