safety-lamp

Miss Pepper lighted the safety-lamp, and they all looked at one another, blinking.

Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

A safety-lamp hung at his belt, also a large, strong knife in a leather sheath.

The Underground City 2003

In former days, before the invention of the safety-lamp, Simon had known this fierce man, whose business it was to go daily, at the risk of his life, to produce partial explosions of fire-damp in the passages.

The Underground City 2003

From this description, and from the fact that the ball is so small that it can be carried in the coat pocket, or, if necessary, in the waistcoat pocket, it will be apparent what a valuable adjunct Mr. Garforth's invention will prove to the safety-lamp.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various

Engineers, and which we have now before us, he says: "It would seem from the foregoing remarks that in any existing safety-lamp where one qualification is increased another is proportionately reduced; so it is doubtful whether all the necessary requirements of sensitiveness, resistance to strong currents, satisfactory light, self-extinction, perfect combustion, etc., can ever be combined in one lamp."

Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various

He directed and stimulated inquiry; he developed many of the principles which underlay their best practice; but he offered them no safety-lamp.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

He was also the inventor of the famous safety-lamp which bears his name, and which has been the means of saving the lives of thousands of miners.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

The lamp can be kept in a pure atmosphere while the sample is obtained by the detecter, and at a greater height than the flame in a safety-lamp could be properly distinguished.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various

Of his own genius and humanity, he studied the nature of fire-damp explosions, and, what is not more wonderful than well proven, invented a miner's safety-lamp, on the same principle as Sir

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

His further career does not belong to Cornwall, but he proved himself a true son of the Duchy by inventing the Davy safety-lamp for miners.

The Cornwall Coast