Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched and was awarded the Copley

and was awarded the Copley medal in 1751 for his work

The car is full of people

you will see the most beautiful circles of colours that imagination can conceive

'Prosperous John'

Two other soldiers guard the door

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched and was awarded the CopleyUnpublished 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