Multiple choice

Who invented the miner's safety-lamp?

  1. Sir Humphrey Davy

  2. Sir Frank Whittle

  3. Alexander Graham Bell

  4. Thomas Alva Edison
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Explanation

Sir Humphry Davy invented the Davy lamp in 1815 to allow miners to work in coal mines where methane and other flammable gases were present.

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