Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8615
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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): 131mm
width (drawing): 203mm
width (drawing): 203mm
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Unpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper "On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion", by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". 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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