In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy invented the first effective electric lamp, opening the door for this technology to be used in residential homes and commercial facilities. This discovery was perfected ...

It is evident, of course, that this bent towards the chemical side of science was determined by his early association with Sir Humphry Davy, for Faraday has left abundant records illustrating the ...

On the north wall of the chapel of St Andrew in Westminster Abbey is a white marble memorial to chemist and poet Sir Humphry ... lamp and he also discovered electrolysis, isolated iodine and also ...

Sir Humphry Davy fascinated ... It was at Bristol that Davy decided to trial breathing nitrous oxide, a gas thought to be fatal. In what seems a remarkably foolhardy exercise to us today, Davy ...

In this book Mr. Gregory has tried to show how many of Davy's researches and speculations may have had some relation to the scientific knowledge of his day, and in this way the progress of Davy's ...