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Davy1|ˈdeɪvɪ| In full Davy lamp, Davy's lamp. [Named after the inventor.] The miner's safety-lamp invented by Sir Humphry Davy, in which the flame is surrounded with wire-gauze, so as to prevent its communication to explosive gases outside the lamp.
1817Faraday in B. Jones Life I. 214 The great desideratum of a lamp to afford light with safety:..merely to refer to that which alone has been found efficacious, the Davy. 1880C. M. Mason Forty Shires 15 The men find fault with the Davy. |