Due to explosions down in the mines from naked flames Stephenson decided to make a safety lamp to stop as many explosions happening. While George was looking at the problem so was Davy! George showed to people in the mines how it worked. Davy than presented people with his lamp a month after George had made his! So than Davy got payed £2,000 when George got accused of copying his ideas! The local committee than proved that Stephenson had been working separately and awarded George with £1,000 but Davy and his supporters refused to listen. They couldn't see how someone so uneducated could come up with something that good.  In 1833 a House of commons committee found that Stephenson had equal claim to having invented the safety lamp. Davy went to his grave believing that Stephenson had stolen his idea!