| Reference number | PT/10/1/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Manuscript, 'On the fire damp of coal mines and on a lantern for preventing its explosion' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy |
| Date | [1815] |
| Description | Includes two copies of the manuscript.
Subject: Industry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion'.
Read 9 November 1815.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 40p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0024 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0001 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/10/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8200 | Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist | 1778 - 1829 |