Sir Humphry Davy fascinated rapturous crowds when he delivered his lectures in chemistry to the Royal Institution in London. In the late 1700s and early 1800s and in sumptuous surroundings, Davy would ...

In 1799, a very young chemist -- about 21 years old -- inhaled a lot of carbon monoxide directly into his lungs, keeled over, was seized by agonizing chest pains, staggered into his garden, got giddy, ...

(via Royal Institution) Humphry Davy is one of the best know men of science of the nineteenth century. He isolated nine different chemical elements, was the first person to inhale nitrous oxide and ...

As scientific heroes go, Humphry Davy is up there with the best of them. He is revered not for his experiments with laughing gas or electrochemistry but because he demonstrated that science could be ...

Abstract: In this talk, Professor Sharon Ruston will explore notebooks kept by Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), the foremost British chemist of the early nineteenth century and a President of the Royal ...

Early automobiles didn’t use light bulbs, instead, they relied on acetylene gas lamps and oil-fueled lanterns before electric ...

IT is always interesting to attempt to trace the origin of scientific work, and although the results are liable to error, they provide a key to much that otherwise would be obscure. In this book Mr.

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Colophon: London : Printed by Stewart and Murray ... Contents v. 1. Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy / by his brother, John Davy -- v. 2. Early miscellaneous papers from 1799 to 1805, with an ...