The earliest Greek theatres were built facing from east to west, meaning that sunlight – the precursor to modern studio ...

An opportunity to get ‘hands-on’ with a Lancaster University project which shines a light on the work of Sir Humphry Davy gets underway this month. The University’s ‘Davy Notebooks Project ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1820s Sir Humphry Davy discovered that a flame enclosed in mesh would not ignite flammable gasses ... Many miners objected to using safety lamps because they were cumbersome, could not be ...

Sir Humphry Davy (centre) surrounded by pages from his notebooks capturing his calculations, artwork, poetry, notes and doodles. The portrait of Sir Humphry is by H.W. Pickersgill and courtesy of ...

The artwork, based on the engineer and inventor's light which was designed in 1815 ... It was invented at around the same time Sir Humphry Davy's eponymous lamp. “Davy’s became the more ...

Magnesium was first isolated in pure form in 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy, who used an electrolytic ... Elemental magnesium is a fairly strong, silvery white, light-weight metal.

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) was a hugely influential chemist, inventor, and ...

invented by Humphry Davy in the early 19th century. It was used commercially for street and large building lighting beginning in the 1870s but was replaced by incandescent light bulbs in the early ...

A new digital platform has been launched which offers unprecedented access to the thoughts, discoveries and personal reflections of pioneering British chemist Sir Humphry Davy, the man best remembered ...