A01=Raymond Lamont-Brown
arc lamp
Author_Raymond Lamont-Brown
biography
british chemist
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chlorine
co-founder of london zoo
coleridge
davy lamp
electrochemistry
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geological society
iodine
laughing gas
nitrous oxide
pioneer
president of the royal society
southey
stamford raffles
wordsworth
Product details
- ISBN 9781845883829
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 125 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2007
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp. Yet, as Lamont-Brown shows, Davy was not just a scientific pioneer but a man with wide-ranging interests at the centre of London life. A founder member of the Geological Society and co-founder with Sir Stamford Raffles of London Zoo, Davy was also a poet of some ability, enjoying the respect and lively friendship of Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth among others. Eclectic and brilliant, one of his greatest contributions was, however, to communicate science to a wider public; he was a man for his own time and ours.
RAYMOND LAMONT-BROWN is the author of Carnegie, Edward VII's Last Loves, John Brown and Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police.
