Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched 'Essence of Parliament'

'Essence of Parliament'

View showing the 'Megatherium Mansion'

The Marquis Carcano and Carlo Maserati at Anzano del Parco

Two other soldiers guard the door

An artist copying a bust on a pedestal in the Royal Academy at Somerset House

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched 'Essence of Parliament'Unpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper 'On the fire damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion', by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. A slip of paper with safety lamp designs attached to a single page of text (original pagination '21'), the latter endorsed 'London Novr. 9 1815'. Original: ink on paper. 1815