Sir Humphry Davy

(person) by viterbiSearcher (7.2 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Sep 27 2000 at 2:23:10

The English scientist who invented the Davy lamp which has the flame encircled by a metal gauze preventing the flame from igniting gases in the air and causing an explosion. Allowed coal mines to be driven much deeper into the earth.

Aluminum	Davy lamp	Michael Faraday	William Randolph Hearst
Clerihew	Scientist	Sodium	The Royal Institution
Calcium	nitrous oxide	Periodic Table of the Elements	1817
The four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when	Davyne	light bulb	low pressure sodium vapor lamp
slipped disc	Robert Elsmere	Henry Cavendish	physicist
Barium	Gas in Coal Mines

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