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
He thought perhaps the butty would let him go down with his Davy lamp.
From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston
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 John Mackenzie Bacon
They had no Davy lamp with which to read their aneroid, and could only tell from the upward flight of fragments of paper that they were descending.
From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon
He maintains, in opposition to Sir Humphry Davy, that the Davy lamp acts by its heat and rarefaction, and not from Sir H. Davy's theory, that flame is cooled by a wire-gauze covering.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 by Various
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