Davy lamp Product:Canvas 388 Steve Ovett

388 Steve Ovett

Fiona Brothers and Richard Noble

With the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the background and figures

The Fenian movement was causing real anxiety with its constant threats of violence and the demands for the release of the 'Manchester martyrs' - prisoners who had been involved in the bombings at the end of the previous year

or the Real Rinderpest'

Davy lamp Product:Canvas 388 Steve OvettOriginal model for a miners' safety lamp by Humphry Davy, the narrow cylindrical gauze is shown housed under a glass dome on an ebonized base. Davy created the lamp for use in coal mines, he discovered that a flame enclosed inside the fine mesh does not ignite firedamp (methane and other flammable gases) thus preventing explosions. ca. 1815