Miners' safety lamp Size:S: 36 x 28cm extremely ragged

extremely ragged

earn point they required for automatic promotion

This De Dion Bouton is one of the original five cars that launched the Montagu Motor Museum in 1952

Eagle House was at this time a private school for boys

Original is oil on panel 45

Miners' safety lamp Size:S: 36 x 28cm extremely raggedPlate 15 from the paper 'On the means of procuring a steady light in coal mines without the danger of explosion', by William Reid Clanny, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 200 205. Three figures showing an arrangement for keeping a candle flame alight in coal mines without the risk of fire damp explosion. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed 'I. Farey delin' {John Farey junior (1791