safety lamp

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The same gallery will host works by Ryan Gander, who will create sculptures inspired by northern inventions, from Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulb to George Stephenson's Geordie safety lamp.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2018

Again it was a result of an opened safety lamp igniting the gas.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2017

For it was in Newcastle in 1815 that the miners' safety lamp was first demonstrated, an entirely practical device made not for stylish appearance, but to stop miners from getting blown up.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2012

I might walk straight into a pocket of gas, and, without any safety lamp to tell me of the danger, be poisoned then and there.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

To remedy this, Sir Humphrey Davy invented the safety lamp in 1815, which gave the miners the light they needed and prevented these explosions.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History by Ontario. Ministry of Education