Davy lamp Product:Canvas The dome of St Paul's

The dome of St Paul's Cathedral dominates the background

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'Sketch for an Al-bum'

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

Davy lamp Product:Canvas The dome of St Paul'sOriginal 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