An event is being held to mark 200 years since the Davy Lamp transformed the safety of mining. Until 1815, open candles were used and ignited frequent methane explosions. Sir Humphry Davy's invention ...
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 ...
In a drawing room above his laboratory, English chemist Humphry Davy threw quite the soiree. He offered his guests — poets, playwrights, doctors and scientists — not a drink, but a puff from a green ...
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