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One of the designs of safety lamps for mining
1813 Invented by Dr. Clanny.
According to Bagot: he attempted to improve the light yielded by the Davy lamp by substituting a short thick glass cylinder round the flame instead of the wire gauze. But this lamp was introduced 2 years before the Davy and the Geordie lamps so the development is open to question.
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