Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1802. Artist: James Gillray

Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1802. Artist: James Gillray Stock Photo

RMID:AJA4W5

Image details

Contributor:

The Print Collector / Alamy Stock Photo

Image ID:

AJA4W5

File size:

50 MB (3.6 MB Compressed download)

Releases:

Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?

Dimensions:

3366 x 5191 px | 28.5 x 44 cm | 11.2 x 17.3 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

1802

Location:

World,Europe,United Kingdom,England,Greater London,London

Photographer:

Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

More information:

Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1802. Davy (1778-1829) discovered the anaesthetic effects of laughing gas (nitrous oxide). In 1801 he was appointed lecturer at the Royal Institution, where he investigated, with his assistant Michael Faraday (1791-1867), his theory of volcanic action. Using electrolysis, Davy isolated the metals barium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium and strontium, as well as proving that chlorine was a chemical element. He is probably best known for his invention in 1815 of the miners' safety lamp, which enabled deeper, more gaseous seams to be mined without risk of explosion. Detail from a Gillray cartoon, New Discoveries in Pneumatics, showing Davy demonstrating the effects of laughing gas to a meeting of the Royal Institution, London.

Search stock photos by tags

Similar stock images

RMAJ9YHB–Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1801 Artist: Thomson

RMF968XB–Sir Humphry Davy, 1778 - 1829, a Cornish chemist and inventor, Sir Humphry Davy, 1778 - 1829, ein englischer Chemiker

RMGA67CE–Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, 1778 - 1829, a Cornish chemist and inventor,

RMAJA4W3–Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, late 19th century. Artist: Unknown

RMRJN05E–Illustration showing Humphry Davy using electrical decomposition to discover potassium and sodium (1807-8). Sir Humphry Davy (1778 – 1829), British chemist and inventor, best remembered for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.

RM2DF63PA–Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (1778-1829), Cornish chemist and inventor, portrait print by Joller or Toller, 1834

RM2T05P0J–Sir Humphry Davy, 1778 – 1829, was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp, oil painting

RF2TD30Y7–Painting of Sir Humphry Davy, by Thomas Phillips. Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (1778-1829), British chemist and inventor. From 'Beginnings and Future of the Arc Lamp ' by S M Hamill, from The Engineering Magazine, Volume VII, 1894.

RM2CAWD3G–An old cigarette card (c. 1929) with a portrait of Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (1778–1829) and an illustration of his safety lamp. Davy was a Cornish chemist and inventor. He is best remembered inventing the Davy lamp. In 1815 Davy began experimenting with lamps that could be used safely in coal mines. Dangerous Firedamp (methane mixed with oxygen) was often ignited by the open flames of the lamps then used by miners. Davy's lamp used iron gauze to enclose a lamp's flame to prevent the methane burning inside the lamp from passing out to the atmosphere. Davy refused to patent the lamp.

RM2HD3Y1A–Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) 1st Baronet, was a Cornish chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. In 1799 he experimented with nitrous oxide so he nicknamed it laughing gas. UK. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

RFAXKYMK–Sir Humphry Davy 1(778 - 1829) British physicist.

RMMFNP29–Humphry Davy (1778-1829) British chemist . Inventor of safety lamp for miners. Using electrolysis he discovered a number of elements. Worked on Nitrous oxide (Laughing gas). Professor chemistry, Royal Institution, London, 1802.