Miners' safety lamp mb-code 2357840 Brooklands

Brooklands

Disraeli had said that the government had not received any official confirmation of the atrocities apparently being perpetrated in Bulgaria

Interior view showing an astronomer on a flight of stairs with one hand on the wall-mounted 10 foot quadrant with a telescopic sight designed for the old Royal Observatory building by Robert Hooke

Bluebird can be seen speeding along the lake

Illustrations include a centaur race

Miners' safety lamp mb-code 2357840 BrooklandsPlate 1 from 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. Safety lamp designs and details comprising figures 1 8 of the published plate, in a variant order. Figures 9 11 which appeared on the published plate are not present. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed.