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 Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Each person had a safety lamp in his hand.
From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston
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