Episode 22
The Davy Lamp
The Davy Lamp
Season: 5 Episode: 22
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a prominent British chemist and inventor, best known for his contributions to the field of electrochemistry and his invention of the Davy lamp, which significantly improved safety in coal mines.
CAST
Humphrey Davy - Julien Kendell
Cumberland Pacquet - Rose Hailes
Second Correspondant - Tony Allen
John Buddle - Molly Jefferies
Frank A. J. L. James - Steve Yeo
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SOURCES
Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser. 9 April 1816. p. 3.
Humphry Davy: Science and Power. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Knight, David (1992).
Sykes, John (1835). An account of the dreadful explosion in Wallsend Colliery, on the 18th June, 1835, to which is added a list of explosions, inundations, &c. which have occurred in the Coal Mines of Northumberland and Durham ... Newcastle: John Sykes.
The Report of the South Shields Committee, appointed to investigate the causes of Accidents in Coal Mines. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans. 1843.
James, Frank A. J. L. (2008). Complete dictionary of scientific biography, e-book, eds Charles Coulston Gillispie, Frederic Lawrence Holmes, and Noretta Koertge. Detroit, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL. D. FRS Foreign ..., Volume 1
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