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  1. Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16
    …, removing human sources of error. He first discussed the principles of a calculating engine in a letter to Sir Humphry Davy in 1822. ===Difference Engine=== The 1820s saw Babbage work on his '**Difference Engine**', a machine which could per…
  2. Anaesthetic — 2023-10-04 16:27:18
    …Anaesthetic :: {{Databox caption="Creator" Image="HumphryDavy.jpg" Who="Humphry Davy" width="270" birth_date="17 Dec 1778" birth_place="Penzance, Cornwall" death_date="29 May 1829" death_place="Geneva, S…
    …witzerland" }} === Humphry Davy 1799 === [[Medical]] Nitrous oxide (N2O) was first synthesised in #%1772#% by chemist Joseph Priestley. The term "laugh…
    …ing gas" was coined by Humphry Davy due to the euphoric effects. He wrote about N2O; {{Image url="NitrousOxideAnesthesia.jpg" class="left" title="Nitrous…
  3. Aluminium — 2023-10-04 16:04:17
    …ytic reduction from alumina (aluminium oxide). The name **Aluminium** was eventually given by Davy replacing //alumium//. Davy was a pioneer in the field of electrolysis using the voltaic pile to split common compoun…
  4. Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40
    …ford Raffles (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) along with the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, [[Aluminium|Sir Humphry Davy]], [[Police|Robert Peel]], Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors and other nobility. {{Image url="ZSL_Logo.png" class…
  5. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    …ght === One of the first to produce electric light was made in the 18th century by E.Kinnersley and later by **Humphry Davy**, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity using an immense electric battery. When he connected wires to…
    …rom Gloucester experimented with electrostatically charged capacitors to heat a wire to incandescence. - 1802 Humphry Davy used huge batteries to pass current through a thin strips of platinum. - 1835, James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a con…

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