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Friday, August 29, 2008

Why was Sir Humphrey Davy so famous?


Why was Sir Humphrey Davy so famous?

Sir Humphrey Davy was the person who invented the Miner’s Safety Lamp in 1815. He was a British chemist who had a very brilliant and inventive brain that was also bubbling with new ideas. One of Sir Davy’s ideas was the use of laughing gas as an anaesthetic. However, this came to be used only after his death.

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