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4 days ago · These are just some of the new insights discovered when over 13,000 pages of scientific notebooks handwritten by Humphry Davy – an early Director of the Royal Institution and inventor of the Miners’ Safety Lamp – were transcribed by members of the public through a mass participation project.
4 days ago · The official launch, on Saturday, October 19, of this free and publicly available, unique digital collection and resource will reveal: · Information about Davy’s first experiments (on himself) with nitrous oxide in 1799 including a note that the gas helped alleviate pain.
1 day ago · A new digital platform reveals the thoughts and discoveries of British chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy for the first time in a project involving UCL's Professor Frank James. Volunteers transcribed 13,000 pages of notebooks and lecture notes, uncovering new insights into the man best known to the public for his invention of the miners' safety lamp, otherwise known as the Davy Lamp.
5 days ago · The Davy Notebooks Project is glad to announce that we have fully transcribed all 120 of Humphry Davy’s notebooks and sets of lecture notes, the vast majority of which are held at the Royal Institution in London.
4 days ago · Applications for Year 7 places in west and mid-Cornwall close on Thursday, October 31 so the deadline is approaching soon. If you've not yet made your decision and are worried you are running out of time, you're in luck as we've rounded up the best-rated schools in the area.
5 days ago · In 1790-1795 he used light to record images on chemically sensitized material, especially glass. In 1802, he presented along with Sir Humphrey Davy, to the Royal Institution of Great Britain a paper “An Account of Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and making Profiles by the Agency upon Nitrate of Silver”.
5 days ago · The congregation cared less about Priestley's heterodoxy and he successfully established a school. Unlike many schoolmasters of the time, Priestley taught his students natural philosophy and even bought scientific instruments for them.
