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ALTHOUGH a period of 109 years has elapsed since Sir Humphry Davy gave to the world the first wire-gauze safety lamp, the mesh of the gauzes in use to-day is identical with that adopted in the original Davy lamp. In the near future, however, it is highly probable, as a result of the valuable researches conducted under the auspices of the Miners' Lamp Committee, that safety lamp gauzes will have 400 apertures per square inch (20 mesh) instead of 784 apertures per square inch (28 mesh).
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Miners' Flame Safety Lamp Gauzes. Nature 114, 591 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114591a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114591a0