The Davy Safety Lamp was a major safety improvement, developed in the space of about three weeks in October 1815 by Britain's most famous scientist of the day, Sir Humphrey Davy, and his assistant and then refined in November/December before being tested at Hebburn Colliery, but how many know the direct link between this and the IET?
The main predecessor of the IET was the IEE, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and electrical engineering owed a lot to Sir Humphrey Davy's assistant, a young man called Michael Faraday!
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