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The news about Davy's lamp was made public at a Royal Society meeting in Newcastle on 3 November 1815, and the paper describing the lamp was formally presented on 9 November.

For it, Davy was awarded the Society's Rumford Medal.

( Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813.

Reid Clanny's lamp was successfully tested at Harrington Mill and he too won medals, from the Royal Society of Arts ).

The first trial of a Davy lamp with a wire sieve was at Hebburn Colliery on 9 January 1816.