Miners' safety lamp mb-code RS-10331 carrying lengths of rope

carrying lengths of rope

Plate 5 from De organis

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his left arm resting on a table and right hand holding a hat and gloves in his lap

Miners' safety lamp mb-code RS-10331 carrying lengths of ropeUnpublished 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'. Original: ink on paper. 1815