Sharon Ruston is lead educator on an online course: Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, Literature and the Lamp. The course runs from 30 October 2017 and is a collaboration ...

On this day in 1816, a safety lamp to prevent explosions in coal mines was tested in England for the first time. The Davy lamp, invented by Sir Humphrey Davy, had a wire mesh screen surrounding the ...

(via Royal Institution) Humphry Davy is one of the best know men of science of the nineteenth century. He isolated nine different chemical elements, was the first person to inhale nitrous oxide and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Davy-style safety lamp was made ...