Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture

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Cornish chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a popular character whose lectures and experiments drew enthusiastic crowds. He became well known in 1799 for his expe riments with laughing gas (nitrous oxide), during which enthusiastic friends like Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge allowed themselves to be used as subjects. Even as a boy Davy was interested in chemistry experiments, prompting a friend to say," This boy Humphry is incorrigible. He will blow us all." Sure enough, in later years, Davy damaged his eyesight in a laboratory accident with nitrogen trichloride. Show more