- A
safety lamp is any of
several types of
lamp that
provides illumination in
places such as coal
mines where the air may
carry coal dust or a build-up...
- 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...
- Look up
LAMP or
lamp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lamp,
Lamps or
LAMP may
refer to: Oil
lamp,
using an oil-based fuel
source Kerosene lamp, using...
- The
Geordie lamp was a
safety lamp for use in
flammable atmospheres,
invented by
George Stephenson in 1815 as a miner's
lamp to
prevent explosions due...
- to
having invented the
safety lamp. Davy went to his
grave believing that
Stephenson had
stolen his idea. The
Stephenson lamp was used
almost exclusively...
-
Betty lamp,
butter lamp,
carbide lamp, gas lighting,
kerosene lamp, oil
lamp, rush light, torch, candle, Limelight, gas
mantle Safety lamps: Davy
lamp and...
- A
halogen lamp (also
called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and
quartz iodine lamp) is an
incandescent lamp consisting of a
tungsten filament sealed...
- FRSE (1776 – 10
January 1850) was an
Irish physician and
inventor of a
safety lamp.
Clanny was born in Bangor,
County Down,
Kingdom of Ireland. He trained...
- A mercury-vapor
lamp is a gas-discharge
lamp that uses an
electric arc
through vaporized mercury to
produce light. The arc
discharge is
generally confined...
-
later versions of
safety lamps. Even
after the
widespread introduction of the
safety lamp,
explosions continued because the
early lamps were
fragile and...