Professor Brian Cox introduces Humphry Davy ... He visits the Royal Institution to recreate one of Davy's spectacular public experiments, making nitrogen triiodide from iodine (an element that ...

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 ...