Sentence examples for safety lamp from inspiring English sources

Sir Humphry Davy pioneered the study of flame wall quenching while developing the mining safety lamp.

Evidently, attempting to recognise the inventor of the miners' safety lamp is problematic.

But should credit for the first miners' safety lamp be shared?

Sir Humphry Davy discovered seven chemical elements, and invented the miner's safety lamp.

Davy lamp, safety lamp devised by Sir Humphry Davy in 1815.

Some of Davy's most extraordinary letters, most of which remain unpublished, relate to Stephenson and the safety lamp controversy.

There were designs for safety lamps and a weighing machine, plans for colliery ventilation, for lighthouses and double-hulled ships.

But he was drawn, above all, to the invention of lamps — safety lamps for mines, carriage lamps, street lamps — and he patented many of these in the eighteen-seventies.

As the case of Davy's and Stephenson's safety lamps demonstrates, it is possible to arrive, contemporaneously, at very similar ideas or designs independently and by different means, which serves as a reminder that claims to absolute priority should be treated with caution.

The colliery was the site of two mining disasters which cost over one hundred lives, to which Sir Humphrey Davey and George Stephenson developed their safety lamps (There is a monument to the workers lost in St Mary's churchyard, Heworth).

Over the next few years, Stephenson built several locomotives for Killingworth and other collieries and gained a measure of fame by inventing a mine-safety lamp.