Another half-dozen scrolls were sent to France as diplomatic gifts to Napoleon. Yet the efforts of famous scientists like the chemist Sir Humphrey Davy came to naught.

MW Turner baffled his contemporaries. At the beginning of his career he was a prodigy, a preternaturally gifted tyro who joined the Royal Academy Schools at 14, and at 15 became the youngest painter ...

It Was in old Pen zance, and amid the old surroundings, that Humphry Davy was born on the 17th December, 1778, just a century ago. His father, Rob View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...

Dating back to at least 1815 — when Sir Humphry Davy introduced the Davy lamp, featuring an enclosed flame and a clip miners could attach to helmets or clothing — hands-free illumination has proven ...

Davy suffered by too much success on his own part and from too much sensitiveness on the part of others. The Scientific Achievements of Sir Humphry Davy. Joshua C. Gregory. Pp. viii + 144.

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.

The process is hundreds of years old—it was pioneered in the late 18th century, and famously used by British chemist Sir Humphry Davy to isolate multiple new elements in the early 1800s.

While biogas has only come into the modern public periphery in the last few decades, it has actually been utilized throughout history. Evidence of the use of biogas goes back to as early as the 10th ...

Chlorine dioxide (ClO 2), also known as chlorine peroxide and chlorine (IV) oxide, is a low-boiling red-brown liquid and yellow-green gas. It has an odd number of valence electrons, which makes it an ...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has given a final message to voters with the seat likely to be won by his party in the general election.