Davy lamp

safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres
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Davy lamp

Summary

Davy lamp ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (192 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Davy lamp is credited with the discovery of Humphry Davy[2].
  • Davy lamp's image is recorded as Davy-lamp-0462.jpg[3].
  • Humphry Davy is named after Davy lamp[4].
  • Davy lamp's subclass of is recorded as safety lamp[5].
  • Davy lamp's Commons category is recorded as Davy lamp[6].
  • Davy lamp's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02fv1[7].
  • Davy lamp's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • Davy lamp's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9].
  • Davy lamp's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/Davy-lamp[10].
  • Davy lamp's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i58396[11].
  • Davy lamp's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 1698[12].
  • Davy lamp's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 312251[13].
  • Davy lamp's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 54373[14].

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Works and Contributions

Davy lamp is credited with the discovery of Humphry Davy[2].

Why It Matters

Davy lamp ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (192 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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