Hello,
I've had an enquiry 'off-list' from Yvette Hickin, who is looking for
information relating to Sir Humphrey Davey - he is her Great Great
Uncle.
I've passed on the following references, but I'm sure there are
hundreds more out there. (He did much more besides his work on the
safety lamp.) I'm also convinced that a biography must have been
written too. Can anyone add to this ?
- 'The Flame Light Book' - Chapter on safety lamps, 125 pages, many of
which details the development of Sir Humphreys safety lamp.
- Paper about the development of Sir Humphreys safety lamp, published
by the Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol.42, pp.28-39,
- 'The Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davey', 1840, edited by his
brother John.
- Sir Humphrey published a paper in the Royal Society's Philosophical
Transactions in 1816 about his lamp.
Mike
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