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THE earliest work on the explosion of gases was that of Humphry Davy, who in 1817 published those celebrated experiments on “the propagation of flame through small tubes and” which led him to the construction of the Thiner's safety-lamp.
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B., L. The Explosion of Gases . Nature 76, 470–471 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076470a0
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