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Image number: RS.8613
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Miners' safety lamp
Date
1815
Creator
Sir Humphry Davy (1778 - 1829, British) , 1st Baronet Physicist, Chemist
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 207mm
width (drawing): 327mm
width (drawing): 327mm
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Description
Plate 1 from the paper "On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion", by Humphry Davy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.1-22. Safety lamp designs and details comprising figures 1-8 of the published plate, in a variant order. Figures 9-11 which appeared on the published plate are not present. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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