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Reference numberPT/10/1/5
LevelItem
TitlePlate, metallic gauze safe lamp and glass tube with flame sieves by unknown artist
Date[1815]
DescriptionPlate with figures 9 and 10 showing a metallic gauze safe lamp and a glass tube fitted with flame sieves in which a common candle can be burnt.

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.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
Physical descriptionInk drawing on paper
Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0024
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0001
Related records in the cataloguePT/10/1
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8200Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist1778 - 1829
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