Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8645
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Forms of miners' safety lamp
Date
1817
Creator
Sir Humphry Davy (1778 - 1829, British) , 1st Baronet Physicist, Chemist
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 325mm
width (drawing): 248mm
width (drawing): 248mm
Subject
Description
Plate 5 from the paper "Some new experiments and observations on the combustion of gaseous mixtures, with an account of a method of preserving a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame", by Humphry Davy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.77-85. Whole views and details of safety lamps including Davy's platinum wire refinements. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Brief instructions to the engraver are in Davy's hand: "turn upside down" and "to be separated from". Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "J Whatman 1811".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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