The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive

CHAPTER VI.

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INVENTION OF THE "GEORDY" SAFETY-LAMP.

Frequency of Colliery Explosions.--Accidents in the Killingworth Pit.--Stephenson's heroic Conduct.--Proposes to invent a Safety-lamp.--His first Lamp and its Trial.--Cottage Experiments with Coal-gas.--His second and third Lamps.--Scene at the Newcastle Institute.--The Stephenson and Davy Controversy.--The Davy and Stephenson Testimonials.--Merits of the "Geordy" Lamp. 175