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I grew up in South Wales and was surrounded by the coal mining industry ... history which fuelled the Industrial Revolution. This lamp, designed to reduce underground explosions which claimed ...

1. The Davy lamp was a type of ______ ____ that Humphry Davy designed for use in coal mines. The design prevented the coal dust that hung in the air from catching fire from the lamp’s flame. Given ...

This example of a Davy lamp is an early one manufactured by John Newman c.1817. Davy only began work on a coal miner's safety lamp in 1815. He devised a metal gauze around the flame to prevent ...