Drawings, miners' safety lamp by [Humphry Davy]

Description

Unpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper by Humphry Davy. A slip of paper with safety lamp designs (recto and verso) attached to a single page of text (original pagination 21), the latter endorsed 'London Novr. [November] 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 (recto) 'Fig 1 Common safe lantern' and continues (verso) with figures 2-4. Not signed. Royal Society stamp on text sheet.

Subject: Engineering

Created in relation to Humphry Davy's paper in Philosophical Transactions titled 'On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion'.

Read to the Royal Society on 9 November 1815.

Reference number

PT/73/5/2

Earliest possible date

1815

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

3 pages

Format

Drawing

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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