Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched 'Prosperous John'

'Prosperous John'

Jimmy Clitheroe

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

and was awarded the Copley medal in 1751 for his work

Miners' safety lamp Finish:Stretched 'Prosperous John'Unpublished illustrations, apparently intended for the paper 'On the fire damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion', by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