Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. 48, [PART I] (1830-31), pp. 141-145 (5 pages) ...

The cause of explosions in mines where the wire gauze lamp is used, is owing more, we believe, to miners taking off their covers to light their pipes, than to sucking the flame through the gauze.