Davy lamp

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John DaviesKirkby in Cleveland, North Yorkshire • The container of the Olympic flame flown into the UK is actually a Davy lamp, invented by Sir Humphry Davy 200 years ago to prevent explosions in coalmines.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2012

Explain to colliers principle of the Davy lamp.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 by Various

Have you ever heard of the Humphrey Davy lamp?

From The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island by Finlay, Roger Thompson

This was done in all mines until the Davy lamp was universally adopted.

From The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern by Verne, Jules

A height of 1,500 feet was read by the Davy lamp, and then we entered fog—warm, wetting fog, through which the balloon would make no progress in spite of a prodigal discharge of sand.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie