| Reference number | PT/73/5/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawings, miners' safety lamp by [Humphry Davy] |
| Date | [1815] |
| Description | Unpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper by Humphry Davy.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. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 260x208mm and 131x203mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| 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 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8614 |
| https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8615 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8200 | Davy; Sir; Humphry (1778 - 1829); chemist | 1778 - 1829 |