Forms of miners' safety lamp Finish:Float frame Tavistock Place

Tavistock Place

'Tabula VII

Sir John Moore (1620-1702) was Lord Mayor of London in 1681-1682 and President of Christ's Hospital from 1686-1687 and 1688-1702

7th March 1977

Forms of miners' safety lamp Finish:Float frame Tavistock PlacePlate 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. Original: ink on paper. 1817