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 hung up before him, and the big corve was by his side.
From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston
Men were much more careless in the handling of naked lights than they are now, and the beneficent gift of the Davy lamp was looked on with mistrust.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
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
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
