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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...26 KB (3,310 words) - 12:11, 3 June 2025
Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He...89 KB (10,129 words) - 08:08, 2 June 2025- section: Davy Lamps Lupton 1893, section: Stephenson Lamp Purdy 1880 Lupton 1893, section: Clanny Lamp Lupton 1893, section: Mueseler NEIMME & lamps, page:Mueseler...60 KB (7,783 words) - 06:14, 14 December 2024
- 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...770 bytes (131 words) - 14:04, 29 June 2023
the Royal Society. Davy is known for the invention of the Davy Lamp and isolating a number of elements using electricity. It shows Davy in the stance of...3 KB (275 words) - 13:01, 30 March 2025
East and the former Monkwearmouth Colliery site on which it stands. A Davy lamp monument stands at the entrance to reflect the coal mining industry that...70 KB (6,429 words) - 20:26, 4 June 2025- 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...10 KB (1,291 words) - 04:16, 15 April 2025
the motivators for the development of miners' safety lamps such as the Geordie lamp and the Davy lamp. Felling is an area in the English county of Tyne and...25 KB (3,147 words) - 06:22, 30 January 2025
Geordie safety lamps, designed by George Stephenson, known locally as "Geordie the engine-wright", in 1815 rather than the competing Davy lamps, designed about...66 KB (6,514 words) - 08:07, 29 May 2025
the Davy lamp (invented by Humphry Davy in the same year), Stephenson's original design worked on significantly different principles from Davy's final...9 KB (1,006 words) - 21:53, 1 December 2023
George Stephenson (section The Safety Lamp)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...45 KB (5,415 words) - 21:59, 13 May 2025
An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc...24 KB (3,067 words) - 08:06, 24 May 2025- Davenport desk – Captain John Davenport Davis Gun – Cleland Davis Davy lamp – Humphry Davy Derrick – Thomas Derrick Derringer – Henry Deringer Dewar flask...24 KB (1,838 words) - 17:16, 31 May 2025
Clanny Lamp 1815 Humphry Davy Exhibited The Davy Lamp 1815 George Stephenson Exhibited his Lamp The Davey Safety Lamp was made in London by Humphry Davy. George...6 KB (606 words) - 14:48, 5 February 2024
Calcium carbide (section Carbide lamps)mines led to miner safety lamps such as the Davy lamp, in which a wire gauze reduces the risk of methane ignition. Carbide lamps were still used extensively...17 KB (1,702 words) - 20:35, 20 May 2025- blasting was permitted and all lamps had to be "gauze lamps". The report states: "These gauze or safety lamps were not Davy lamps, but of a kind in common use...30 KB (3,936 words) - 03:24, 31 January 2025
Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)Betty lamp, butter lamp, carbide lamp, gas lighting, kerosene lamp, oil lamp, rush light, torch, candle, Limelight, gas mantle Safety lamps: Davy lamp and...14 KB (1,506 words) - 23:38, 23 February 2025- language. A stadium expansion in 2000 saw the capacity increase to 49,000. A Davy lamp monument stands outside the stadium, and a miners banner was presented...111 KB (10,314 words) - 19:57, 4 June 2025
Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma. Typically...30 KB (3,309 words) - 01:59, 6 June 2025- 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...3 KB (413 words) - 00:01, 29 May 2025