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
A safety lamp will go right out with less than seventeen per cent. of oxygen, while a man can live fairly comfortably on fifteen or sixteen per cent.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
That this mixture was firedamp was proved by the introduction of a safety lamp, the flame of which was elongated, showing what miners call the "blue cap."
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
