Miners' safety lamp Finish:Single Left to Right: Actors Philip

Left to Right: Actors Philip Ray (as Daniel Eldred)

View of houses on the north side of Fleet Street

and Dr Joshua Ward

one of whom holds a pair of scissors to be sharpened

near St James

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Single Left to Right: Actors PhilipPlate 1 from the paper 'On the fire damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion', by Humphry Davy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 1 22. Safety lamp designs and details comprising figures 1 8 of the published plate, in a variant order. Figures 9 11 which appeared on the published plate are not present. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed.