Lecture 1: Brave Old World by ... It was here, exactly two hundred years ago, that the young Humphry Davy was appointed to arrange scientific demonstrations for the public. Davy's demonstrations ...

QUESTION Did Humphry Davy administer laughing gas to the audience at his lectures? Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a celebrated chemist and inventor. He was the first person to describe the ...

It is particularly fitting that the first lecture in a series that will explore ... It was here, exactly two hundred years ago, that the young Humphry Davy was appointed to arrange scientific ...

Lectures given by the top scientists of the ... real star – the Royal Institution’s new professor of chemistry, Humphry Davy. As well as being a brilliant chemist Davy was also a passionate ...