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

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

The Davy lamp was hung up before him, and the big corve was by his side.

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

The Davy lamp was of no use here.

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

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 Bacon, John Mackenzie