PENLEE HOUSE GALLERY AND MUSEUM. It is strange that Humphry Davy of Penzance is best known today for an invention made to help coal miners in the Midlands. Davy was a chemist and became president ...
It's basically a nitrogen atom with three iodines stuck to it ... Professor Brian Cox introduces Humphry Davy, who was passionate both about chemistry and communicating his enthusiasm for science ...
In 1815, after many miners were killed in several explosions in north-east England, Humphry Davy was asked if he could make a light for miners which would be safe to use. He spent two months in ...