...This chapter focuses on Davy’s career as a public lecturer at the Royal Institution in London, in the first decade of the nineteenth century. To an audience drawn from the fashionable elite of the capital, he modeled the figure of a scientific genius. His intellectual brilliance, his emotionalism...

... established that the voltaic pile or battery could be used as an instrument of analysis, drawing upon experiments shown in the lecture theatre and laboratory of the Royal Institution. In 1810, Davy committed himself to the view that chlorine (previously known as oxymuriatic acid) was also an element. He...

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.... Davy’s early life led from experiments on breathing gases (including nitrous oxide) to fame as a public scientific lecturer at the Royal Institution in London. He gained renown as the discoverer of several chemical elements, applied his knowledge to such practical problems as the design of a safety lamp...