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Safety lamp

1850-1880

Davy Infra-red Reflection Apparatus.

Davy Infra-red Reflection Apparatus.

1876

Davy Infra-red Reflection Apparatus, dome

Davy Infra-red Reflection Apparatus, dome

1876

Davy Infra-red Reflection Apparatus, base

Davy Infra-red Reflection Apparatus, base

1876

Davy Safety lamp

Davy Safety lamp

before 1815

Davy Safety lamp, used 1815

Davy Safety lamp, used 1815

before 1815

Safety lamp, Davy, maker: J. Mills, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marking: makers name, 1828-65

Safety lamp

1828-1865

Two safety lamps, Davy, the first to be used in a coal mine, 1815.

Davy Lamps

1815

Safety lamp, Davy no.2, use: gas detecting, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: E. Thomas, Aberdare, marking: makers name, 1860-1881

Safety lamp

1860-1881

Safety lamp, Davy with shield no.2, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: H. Watson, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marking: makers name, 1847-1881

Safety lamp

1847-1881

Safety lamp, Scotch Davy no.2, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: John Spence and Sons, Airdrie and Coattridge, marking: makers name

Safety lamp

Safety lamp, Davy in case no.2, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: J. Abbot, Gateshead, marking: Abbots No.1, pattern B, Davy lamp in iron case 3lb 2oz, 1865-1883

Safety lamp

1865-1883

Safety lamp, Davy with shield no.7, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: ? J. Naylor, Wigan, 1861-1880 (shield missing)

Safety lamp

1861-1880

Safety lamp, Davy no.10, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: J.Naylor, Wigan, 1861-1880

Safety lamp

1861-1880

Safety lamp, Davy no.9, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: J. Naylor, Wigan, 1861-1880

Safety lamp

1861-1880

Safety lamp, Davy no.6, use: gas detecting, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: E. Thomas, Aberdare, marking: makers name and trademark, 1860-1881

Safety lamp

1860-1881

Safety lamp, Davy no.3, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: E. Thomas, Aberdare, 1860-1881

Safety lamp

1860-1881

Safety lamp, Davy, maker: G.J. Newman, London, marking: makers name, 1827-56

Safety lamp

c.1820

Safety lamp, Davy with shield no.4, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: H. Watson, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marking: makers name, 1847-1881

Safety lamp

1847-1881

Safety lamp, Ayton no.5, Davy type, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines 1879-86, maker: J. Mills, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, marking: makers name, 1884

Safety lamp

Safety lamp, Davy with glass shield no.9, experimental, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, c.1883

Safety lamp

c.1883

Safety lamp, Davy with glass shield no.7, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, marking: C.T. and Co. Ld. (glass broken), 1850-1880

Safety lamp

1850-1880

Safety lamp, Donald, Davy type, Guy's shield, maker: J. Mills and Sons, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marking: makers name, 1901

Safety lamp

1901

Safety lamp, Ayton no.2, Davy type, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: J. Abbot and Co. Ltd, Gateshead, marking: makers name and Ayton's Improved no.2 safety, 18 -1881

Safety lamp

-1881

Safety lamp, Davy in case no.5, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: J. Abbot and Co., Gateshead, marking: makers name, 1865-1883

Safety lamp

1865-1883

Safety lamp, Ayton no.3, Davy type, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: J. Mills and Sons, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marking: makers name and Ayton's Improved no.2 safety, 18 -1885

Safety lamp

Safety lamp, Davy in case no.3, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, 1865-1881

Safety lamp

1865-1881

Safety lamp, Davy with glass shield no.8, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, 18 -1881

Safety lamp

-1881

Safety lamp, Davy in case no.5, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, 1865-1880

Safety lamp

1865-1880

Safety lamp, Scotch, Davy no.1, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines 1879-86, c.1880

Safety lamp

c.1880

[Volume of letters to his family, especially to his brother, John / Humphry Davy. 1799?-1829. 69 items, guarded and bound in one volume. The majority of the letters are to his mother and to his brother, John. A few are to his sister, Catherine, and one to his sister, Elizabeth. Included is one 1829 letter from John to Catherine. Some were published or part-published in Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart./John Davy, London 1836. With bound photocopy volume.

Volume of letters to his family

1799-1829

Safety lamp, American, Davy type, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines 1879-86, 1885

Safety lamp

c.1885

Safety lamp, Davy with glass shield no.4, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, 1850-1880

Safety lamp

1850-1880

Safety lamp, Davy with shield no.5, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, 18 -1881

Safety lamp

-1881

Safety lamp, Davy with glass shield no.6, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, marking: C.T. and Co. Ld., 1850-1881

Safety lamp

1850-1881

Safety lamp, Davy, plano-convex lens, maker: J. Newman, London, marking: makers name, 1827-56

Safety lamp

1827-1856

Safety lamp, Davy no.11, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: E. Thomas, Aberdare, marking: makers name and trademark, 1860-1882

Safety lamp

1860-1882

Safety lamp, Davy with shield no.3, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, 1879-86, maker: H. Watson, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marking: makers name, 1847-1881

Safety lamp

1847-1881

Safety lamp, Davy in case no.4, from the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines 1879-86, maker: J. Mills and Sons, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marking: makers name, 1865-1882

Safety lamp

c.1865

Prospectus of an intended work ... to be entitled, An Historical Account of the Iron and Steel Manufactures, and Trade; ... to which will be prefixed, an Epitome of the Natural History of Iron / James Weale Jun. 1779-1811. [4 ms. vols. with some printed items. Weale was, according to the Prospectus, private secretary to Lord Sheffield. Vols.1 and 2 (1798-1811) contain leaves 1 to 565; vols.3 and 4 (1779-1805) contain leaves 1 to 445. Vol. 2 contains numerous letters from Humphry Davy]

Prospectus of an intended work ... to be entitled

1779-1811