Title

Miners' safety lamp, 1833.Artist: Jackson

Caption

Miners' safety lamp, 1833. Humphry Davy's invention of 1815, the miners' safety lamp, which enabled deeper, more gaseous seams to be mined without risk of explosion.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1833

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C15_224

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

32,1Mb (2,3Mb) / 12,0in x 10,4in / 3586 x 3124 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men light safety industry science guy tool lighting mining miner fuel underground pick lamp century digging concept coal invention B&W MONOCHROME 19th century black & white black and white B W coal miner nineteenth century The Print Collector miner's lamp miner's safety lamp pick axe engraving Jackson Humphry Humphry Davy Davy Humphry Davy engraving