The creation of the light bulb is commonly viewed as a human achievement—one of those few technologies that actually revolutionized how we live, work, and socialize with our environment. However, the ...
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.
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 ...
The Davy Notebooks Project has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp ...
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THE time is now fast approaching when people will be reckoning up the achievements of the closing century. Undoubtedly the great characteristic of the times in which we and our fathers and ...
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Join us for this year’s Humphry Davy Lecture, “The application of science to the common purposes of life”. We are pleased to invite members and their guests to Burlington House on Thursday 23 October ...
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