Sujet
Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, 1803. Artist: C Turner
Légende
Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, 1803. Whilst at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, Davy discovered the anaesthetic effects of laughing gas (nitrous oxide). In 1801, he was appointed lecturer at the Royal Institution, where he isolated the metals barium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium and strontium, but it is his invention in 1815 of the miners' safety lamp (which enabled deeper, more gaseous seams to be mined without risk of explosion) for which he is perhaps best known.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1803
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B63_124
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
18,0Mo (1,6Mo) / 17,3cm x 26,0cm / 2045 x 3074 (300dpi)