Forms of miners' safety lamp Product:Framed picture Figure 1 Hermaea bifida

Figure 1 Hermaea bifida

A car park in a cleared bombsite

The three figures at the base represent Britain

22nd September 1988

A similar richly patterned drape appears behind

Forms of miners' safety lamp Product:Framed picture Figure 1 Hermaea bifidaPlate 5 from the paper 'Some new experiments and observations on the combustion of gaseous mixtures, with an account of a method of preserving a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame', by Humphry Davy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 77 85. Whole views and details of safety lamps including Davy's platinum wire refinements. Original: ink on paper. 1817