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Definition of Davy lamp

Davy lamp
Davy lamp Da"vy lamp` See Safety lamp, under Lamp.

Meaning of Davy lamp from wikipedia

- The Davy lamp is a safety lamp used in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed...
- Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS, MRIA, FGS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very...
- section: Davy Lamps Lupton 1893, section: Stephenson Lamp Purdy 1880 Lupton 1893, section: Clanny Lamp Lupton 1893, section: Mueseler NEIMME & lamps, page:Mueseler...
- the Davy lamp (invented by Humphry Davy in the same year), Stephenson's original design worked on significantly different principles from Davy's final...
- several types of lamp that provides illumination in coal mines Davy lamp The Lamp (1987 film), or The Outing, a horror film The Lamp (2011 film), an American...
- in coal mines before the invention of the Geordie lamp and Davy lamp. Even after the safety lamps were brought into common use, firedamp explosions could...
- Look up davy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Davy may refer to: Davy (given name) Davy (surname) Davy lamp, a type of safety lamp with its flame encased...
- Geordie safety lamps, designed by George Stephenson, known locally as "Geordie the engine-wright", in 1815 rather than the competing Davy lamps, designed about...
- relates that opinion varied about the two lamps' efficiency: that the Davy Lamp gave more light, but the Geordie Lamp was thought to be safer in a more gaseous...
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