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  • Thumbnail for Gauze
    Gauze is a thin, translucent fabric with a loose open weave. In technical terms, "gauze" is a weave structure in which the weft yarns are arranged in...
    7 KB (819 words) - 14:09, 7 November 2024
  • currents. The lamp is safe in currents up to 15 feet per second. The Marsaut lamp is a Clanny with multiple gauzes. Two or three gauzes are fitted inside...
    60 KB (7,778 words) - 06:14, 14 December 2024
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    outside the lamp, causing an explosion. Some wire gauze is made with a ceramic centre. Plain wire gauze can transmit heat efficiently, but gauze with a ceramic...
    4 KB (391 words) - 19:03, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geordie lamp
    Davy's gauze to surround the lamp (instead of the perforated metal tube) and the intake tubes were changed to holes or a gallery at the base of the lamp. It...
    9 KB (1,006 words) - 21:53, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Davy lamp
    Medal. Davy's lamp differed from Stephenson's in that the flame was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson's prototype lamp had a perforated...
    26 KB (3,295 words) - 22:52, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Humphry Davy
    especially the lamps used by miners. Davy conceived of using an iron gauze to enclose a lamp's flame, and so prevent the methane burning inside the lamp from passing...
    87 KB (9,816 words) - 04:08, 16 December 2024
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    Exhibited The Museler Lamp in Belgium. 1859 William Clark patented the first electrical mining lamp. 1870s J.B.Marsaut (France) double gauze design 1872 Coal...
    6 KB (606 words) - 14:48, 5 February 2024
  • totally by such a gauze, then methane could pass into the lamp and burn safely above the flame. Stephenson's lamp (the "Geordie lamp") worked on a different...
    10 KB (1,288 words) - 18:23, 6 June 2024
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    Alcohol burner (redirect from Spirit lamp)
    An alcohol burner or spirit lamp is a piece of laboratory equipment used to produce an open flame. It can be made from brass, glass, stainless steel or...
    4 KB (311 words) - 03:01, 9 November 2023
  • blasting was permitted and all lamps had to be "gauze lamps". The report states: "These gauze or safety lamps were not Davy lamps, but of a kind in common use...
    30 KB (3,936 words) - 04:58, 15 December 2024
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    Gas mantle (redirect from Mantle lamp)
    lines to simulate white light. Many early attempts used platinum-iridium gauze soaked in metal nitrates, but these were not successful because of the high...
    13 KB (1,659 words) - 22:44, 4 November 2024
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    mines led to miner safety lamps such as the Davy lamp, in which a wire gauze reduces the risk of methane ignition. Carbide lamps were still used extensively...
    17 KB (1,676 words) - 14:43, 3 December 2024
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    issuing. The two designs differed; Davy's lamp was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson's prototype lamp had a perforated plate containing a...
    43 KB (5,175 words) - 17:38, 14 November 2024
  • Tiffany (silk), a light, thin, and transparent silk material, similar to a gauze List of storms named Tiffany, three tropical cyclones in the Australian...
    2 KB (340 words) - 03:49, 3 July 2024
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    double gauze 1 ins. in depth at the peak. 24 mesh iron. Light. Candle. Henderson, Clarks. "NEIMME: Lamps – No. 16. STEPHENSON (GEORDIE) LAMP". Archived...
    61 KB (6,272 words) - 23:24, 25 November 2024
  • Clamond basket (category Types of lamp)
    required form. When exposed to a hot flame, a basket made of this composite gauze would burn away the acetate, leaving a brittle but serviceable magnesia...
    2 KB (201 words) - 03:54, 19 April 2021
  • transparent gauze of silk or cotton muslin . Tiffany glass Stained or iridescent glass of a kind popular in the early 1900 ' s for decorative objects or lamps .''...
    4 KB (436 words) - 00:46, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Felling mine disasters
    Humphry Davy to devise another safety lamp, the Davy lamp, in which the flame was surrounded by iron gauze. The gauze had to have small spaces so that a...
    25 KB (3,147 words) - 20:34, 5 December 2024
  • flame through the gauze of one of their safety lamps, or that as the men started to move away from the fall, they snatched up their lamps causing a sufficient...
    22 KB (2,848 words) - 21:22, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedford Colliery disaster
    Masault lamps and 50 improved Clanny lamps which had bonnets fitted. The effect of the bonnet was to protect the gauze from draughts and reduce the risk...
    6 KB (809 words) - 08:42, 21 December 2021
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