Another advance in technology occurred with the Davy lamp, a portable mine-safety lamp that debuted in 1816. Developed by Sir Humphrey Davy, the lamp consisted of a wire gauze chimney that encased ...

Davy Lamps, pit tokens and old watches will go on show when an exhibition opens looking at Wearside’s mining history.

ALTHOUGH a period of 109 years has elapsed since Sir Humphry Davy gave to the world the first wire-gauze safety lamp, the mesh of the gauzes in use to-day is identical with that adopted in the ...

One thing appears to be singularly strange as tlie cause of many accidents in the English mines, it being nothing less than Davy's Safety Lamp. It has come to light that since this was introduced ...

otherwise known as the Davy Lamp. Volunteers have fully transcribed all 129 of Davy’s notebooks and sets of lecture notes, the vast majority of which are held at the Royal Institution as part of ...

A NEW poetry exhibition coming to Wordsworth Grasmere will display the previously undiscovered manuscripts of British chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, until March 23. Davy, who is well known in ...