Keywords: Jules Verne's "Ruhmkorff lamp", a miners' electric lamp.jpg Uploaded with en wp UW marker 2012 09 30 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 BenoƮt for use by miners Original publication Underground life; or Mines and Miners London England Chapman and Hall 1869 <br/> Immediate source Google Books -- http //books google com/books id hNIOAAAAYAAJ pg PA169 v onepage q f false 1869 Louis Laurent Simonin -- with Henry William Bristow translator editor<br/> Life time Louis L Simonin 1830-1886 ; H W Bristow 1817-1889 PD-old-auto-1923 1889 Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff |