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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

safe′ty lamp`(n.)

  1. a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the ignition of explosive gases.

    Category: Mining

Origin of safety lamp:

1810–20

Princeton's WordNet

  1. safety lamp, Davy lamp(noun)

    an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane)

Wiktionary

  1. safety lamp(Noun)

    A miner's lamp designed to avoid explosion by enclosing the flame in fine wire gauze.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Safety Lamp

    name of a variety of lamps for safety in coal-mines against "fire-damp," a highly explosive mixture of natural gas apt to accumulate in them; the best known being the "Davey Lamp," invented by Sir Humphrey Davy; the "Geordie," invented by George Stephenson, both of which, however, have been superseded by the Gray, Muesler, Marsant, and other lamps; all are constructed on the principle discovered by Davy and Stephenson, that a flame enveloped in wire gauze of a certain fineness does not ignite "fire-damp." Saffi


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

safety lamp(noun)

a type of lamp used in mines that does not set fire to any inflammable gases there.

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