Nature - Mark Peplow parses a book on Humphry Davy's dazzling mix of personas. ... In James Gillray's 1802 cartoon, young Humphry Davy works the bellows at a Royal Institution lecture on pneumatics.

In a drawing room above his laboratory, chemist Humphry Davy threw quite the soiree. But his nitrous oxide parties were more than a rollicking good time: they led to the discovery of anaesthesia.

Sarah K. Bolton: Famous Men of Science. (New York, 1889) In 1799, a chemist and inventor named Humphry Davy started experimenting with nitrous oxide, the gas we now call “laughing gas.” ...

Julie Skentelbery - Humphry Davy School history book from 1975 reunites former pupil with Roman studies - BBC Sounds. Julie Skentelbery ...

Coal, as the chemist Sir Humphry Davy observed in his 1818 book describing the development of this Davy Safety Lamp, was at the heart of much of early 19th-century England’s industrial progress.

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 of the Royal Society at a young age.