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Definition of Safety lamp
1. Noun. An oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane).
Definition of Safety lamp
1. Noun. A miner's lamp designed to avoid explosion by enclosing the flame in fine wire gauze. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Lamp
Literary usage of Safety lamp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy by Humphry Davy, John Davy (1840)
"SOME EXTRACTS FROM COMMUNICATIONS ON THE APPLICATION OF THE safety lamp. ...
After having introduced your safety-lamp into general use in all the collieries ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1886)
"C. THIS novel 'Safety-lamp, which was first introduced in some of the German
coal-mines in 1882, at once attracted general attention in the coal-districts ..."
3. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1895)
"The source of light within a safety lamp should be incapable, under any circumstances
at all likely to occur in working coal, of causing the ignition of an ..."
4. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1915)
"61082 A. One Year's Experience with the Ceag Electric safety lamp. ... Experiments
with Substitutes for Safety-Lamp Benzine (Versuche mit Ersatz- stoffen ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"... safe lamp for mine use, and would be almost certain to cause an explosion if
brought into contact with a body of explosive gas. SAFETY-LAMP DETAILS 70. ..."
6. American Agriculturist (1846)
"PROPOSED safety lamp. WILL you permit me the use of your columns, ... I believe
it was Sir H. Davy who invented the safety lamp for fire damp of coal mines, ..."
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