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    Image number: RS.8614
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    Miners' safety lamp

    Date
    1815
    Creator
    Sir Humphry Davy (1778 - 1829, British) , 1st Baronet Physicist, Chemist
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 260mm
    width (drawing): 208mm
    Subject
    Description
    Unpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper "On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion", by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. A slip of paper with safety lamp designs attached to a single page of text (original pagination "21"), the latter endorsed "London Novr. 9 1815". The drawings are inscribed with proposed publication and plate details but each bears the note "cancelled". The slip (original pagination 17-18) bears the title "Fig 1 Common safe lantern”. Not signed. Royal Society stamp on text sheet.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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