It would be 100 years after Davy's experiment before cathodic protection was used widely on oil pipelines in the United States.

One advantage of Stephenson's design over Davy's was that if the proportion of firedamp became too high, his lamp would be extinguished, whereas Davy's lamp could become dangerously hot.

# " The Dinghy Song " ( often confused with a similar song " Davy's Dinghy ")

After the death of Davy's father in 1794, Tonkin apprenticed the boy to John Bingham Borlase, a surgeon with a large practice at Penzance.

Sir Humphry Davy's portrait in the 19th century.

Sir Humphry Davy's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of electricity in simple electrolytic cells resulted from chemical action and that chemical combination occurred between substances of opposite charge.

Like many other works in the new genre of popular scientific narratives — such as the Bridgewater Treatises and Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel — the books of the Library of Useful Knowledge focused on natural theology and imbued scientific fields with concepts of progress: uniformitarianism in geology, the nebular hypothesis in astronomy, and the scala naturae in the life sciences.

He had a great interest in science, particularly with Humphry Davy's experiments with the arc light ; he tinkered with and built simple electrical devices such as a static electricity machine at age 12, experimenting in a workshop on his parents farm.

Davy's indenture is dated 10 February 1795.

It is a combination of three water systems which are Davy's Creek, the overflow from Chifley Dam which fed by the Campbells River, and the Fish River which flows into and out of the Oberon Dam.

The present ownership of the stadium is Ken Davy's company, Huddersfield Sporting Pride owns 60 % and Kirklees Metropolitan Council 40 %.

Dora Keith-Dora, Davy's sister, is completely the contrary.

Dora Keith-Dora, Davy's sister, is completely the contrary of her brother.

`` My usual palette consists of top-quality colors: alizarin crimson, orange, raw sienna, raw umber, burnt sienna, sepia, cerulean blue, cobalt blue, French ultramarine blue, Winsor green, Hooker's green 2, cadmium yellow pale, yellow ochre, Payne's gray, charcoal gray, Davy's gray, and ivory black ''.

In 1823, Michael Faraday, then an assistant in Davy's lab, successfully liquified chlorine and went on to liquify all known gaseous elements, with the exception of nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen.

The news about Davy's lamp was made public at a Royal Society meeting in Newcastle on 3 November 1815, and the paper describing the lamp was formally presented on 9 November.

( Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813.

The two designs differed in that, the Davy's lamp was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson's lamp was contained in a glass cylinder.

The word " halogen " had actually first been proposed in 1811 by Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger as a name for the newly discovered element chlorine, but Davy's proposed term for this element eventually won out, and Schweigger's term was kept at Berzelius ' suggestion as the term for the element group that contains chlorine.

Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity " one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry.

In Davy's childhood the family moved from Penzance to Varfell, their family estate in Ludgvan.

Davy's boyhood was spent partly with his parents and partly with Tonkin, who placed him at a preparatory school kept by a Mr. Bushell, who was so much struck with the boy's progress that he persuaded Davy's father to send him to a better school.

Davy's first production preserved bears the date of 1795.

As of 2010, Harry and Davy are no longer together following Davy's departure from England.

In 1842 Thomas Davy purchased the land once owned by Thomas Shannon and it was named Davy's Landing.

Davy was assisted in his experiments by his pupil Michael Faraday, who continued his research after Davy's death.

The company competed with already established stockbroking names in Dublin such as Davy's and Goodbodys.

Davy's sister Helen Marjorie ( 1908 – 1991 ) was six years older and her brother Donald three years younger.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.

I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.

She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.

The kiss outraged our friends but it was done and meanwhile had released in me all the remote, exciting premonitions of lust, all the mysterious sensations that I had imagined a truly consummated kiss would convey to me.

His friends advised that it would be only a question of time until either the Mexicans killed him by ambuscade or he would be compelled to kill them in self-defense, perpetuating the troubles.

Her friends and professional associates would sympathize with her, not because she had lost a beloved husband, but because she had been married to a man who thought unrealistically.

Unbeknownst to his family, friends or colleagues, he had left most of his wealth in trust, in order to fund the awards that would become known as the Nobel Prizes.

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

The Pals battalions were a peculiarity of the 1914-18 war: Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, believed that it would help recruitment if friends and work-mates from the same town were able to join up and fight together.

However, many " free " BBSes also maintained close knit communities, and some even had annual or bi-annual events where users would travel great distances to meet face-to-face with their on-line friends.

Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives in which he seemed incoherently drunk or ill. Haley's first wife has been quoted as saying, " He would call and ramble and dwell on the past, his mind was really warped.

Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists ; among them was Édouard Manet.

Upon his arrival in Panama, he would meet and become friends with Francisco Pizarro.

A favorite target of Poe's criticism was Boston's then acclaimed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was often defended by his literary friends in what would later be called " The Longfellow War ".

Whatever the reasons behind the duel, Galois was so convinced of his impending death that he stayed up all night writing letters to his Republican friends and composing what would become his mathematical testament, the famous letter to Auguste Chevalier outlining his ideas, and three attached manuscripts.

Holly had already told his hometown friends in Texas that he would be singing " Oh, Boy!

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

Douglass ' friends and mentors feared that the publicity would draw the attention of his ex-owner, Hugh Auld, who might try to get his " property " back.

Often fanzine editors (" faneds ") would simply swap issues with each other, not worrying too much about matching trade for trade, somewhat like being on one another's friends list.