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
Have you ever heard of the Humphrey Davy lamp?
From The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island by Roger Thompson Finlay
Recently, M. Eugene Godard has obviated a portion of this difficulty by fitting a chimney, like that which is found of such incalculable service in the case of the Davy lamp.
From Wonderful Balloon Ascents by F. (Fulgence) Marion
The Davy lamp was hung up before him, and the big corve was by his side.
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
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