RefNo | PT/73/4/12 |
Level | Item |
Title | Drawing, miners' safety lamp, by I [John] Farey |
Creator | Farey; John Jr (1791-1851); English engineer |
Date | [1813] |
Description | Plate 15 containing three figures showing an arrangement for keeping a candle flame alight in coal mines without the risk of fire damp explosion. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed 'I. Farey delin' [John Farey junior (1791-1851)]. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the means of procuring a steady light in coal mines without the danger of explosions' by William Reid Clanny.
Read to the Royal Society on 20 May 1813. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
PhysicalDescription | Ink wash on paper |
Dimensions | 268x213mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0279 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1813.0027 |
RelatedRecord | PT/7/24 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8605 |