Image: Jules Verne's "Ruhmkorff lamp", a miners' electric lamp

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Description: Early portable electric lamp (ca. 1860) which science fiction author Jules Verne called the "Ruhmkorff lamp", but which was actually invented by Frenchmen Alphonse Dumas and Dr. Camille Benoît, for use by miners.
Title: Jules Verne's "Ruhmkorff lamp", a miners' electric lamp
Credit: Original publication: Underground life; or Mines and Miners (London, England: Chapman and Hall, 1869) Immediate source: Google Books -- https://books.google.com/books?id=hNIOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169#v=onepage&q&f=false
Author: Louis Laurent Simonin -- with Henry William Bristow, translator & editor (Life time: Louis L. Simonin: 1830-1886 ; H.W. Bristow: 1817-1889)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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