Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched The Marquis Carcano and Carlo

The Marquis Carcano and Carlo Maserati at Anzano del Parco

Jimmy Clitheroe

Two other soldiers guard the door

View showing the 'Megatherium Mansion'

'Prosperous John'

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched The Marquis Carcano and CarloUnpublished 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