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Image number: RS.8605
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Miners' safety lamp
Date
1813
Creator
John Farey (1791 - 1851, British) , Mechanical engineer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 268mm
width (drawing): 213mm
width (drawing): 213mm
Subject
Description
Plate 15 from the paper "On the means of procuring a steady light in coal mines without the danger of explosion", by William Reid Clanny, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.200-205. Three figures showing an arrangement for keeping a candle flame alight in coal mines without the risk of fire damp explosion. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed "I. Farey delin" {John Farey junior (1791-1851)?]. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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