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

The Davy lamp was of no use here.

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

Explain to colliers principle of the Davy lamp.

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

He thought perhaps the butty would let him go down with his Davy lamp.

From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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 Bacon, John Mackenzie