One of the first studies of condensed states of matter was by English chemist Humphry Davy, when he observed that of the forty chemical elements known at the time, twenty-six had metallic properties such as lustre, ductility and high electrical and thermal conductivity.

Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy ( and Davie ) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie renamed himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.

Sir Humphry Davy had discovered that a flame enclosed inside a mesh of a certain fineness cannot ignite firedamp.

Ironically, the introduction of the Davy lamp led to an increase in mine accidents, as the lamp encouraged the working of mines and parts of mines that had previously been closed for safety reasons.

Since the discovery of potassium by Humphry Davy, it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal in combination with oxygen.

A local committee of enquiry exonerated Stephenson, proved that he had been working separately and awarded him £ 1, 000 but Davy and his supporters refused to accept this.

Davy went to his grave believing that Stephenson had stolen his idea.

As professor at the Royal Institution, Davy would later repeat many of the ingenious experiments which he had learned from his Quaker instructor.

In an interview conducted for his 21st birthday, Harry referred to Davy as his girlfriend, and the press reported at that time that the couple had been together for 18 months, contradicting earlier reports that they were no longer together.

Blues, drugs, jazz and eastern influences had featured since 1964 in the work of Davy Graham and Bert Jansch.

Although sodium, sometimes called soda, had long been recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide.

Although nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, had been proposed as an anaesthetic as far back as 1799 by Humphry Davy, it wasn't until 1846 when an American Dentist named William Morton started using ether on his patients that anaesthetics became common in the medical profession.

Tork claimed later that he had not been asked, although a Christmas single ( credited to Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork ) was produced by Chip Douglas and released on his own label in 1976.

Even after its elementary character had been settled by Davy, he persisted in using the atomic weights he himself had adopted, even when they had been superseded by the more accurate determinations of other chemists.

Six years previously he had been made a corresponding member of the French Académie des Sciences, and in 1830 he was elected as one of its eight foreign associates in place of Davy.

By 1845 the town had been laid out, and in 1869 the name Alamo replaced Cageville as a memorial to Davy Crockett and those who died at Battle of the Alamo.

By this point, Charles Harding Smith had become the group's leader, with former soldier Davy Fogel as his second-in-command who had trained the new recruits in military tactics, the use of guns, and unarmed combat.

North Belfast UDA brigadier Davy Payne was arrested after his " scout " car had been stopped at a RUC checkpoint and large caches of the weaponry were discovered in the boots of his associates ' cars.

Up to this time, miners had always used the safety lamp devised in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy ( 1778 – 1829 ) but this new battery-powered Davy Lamp lamp eventually replaced the traditional safety lamp.

In 1927, Liberal Party politician Bill Veitch secured an alliance with Albert Davy, a former Reform Party organizer who had become dissatisfied with what he saw as Reform's paternalism and intrusive governance.

Jones changed his name in the 1960s because he feared his name was too similar to Davy Jones, a member of the already famous The Monkees.

This move was not because of any lack of Monkee talent — Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork were already experienced musicians, and Davy Jones was an established musical performer ; but as a working band they had little experience, and Micky Dolenz was completely new to drums — but to churn out ready-to-go recordings to give each new episode its own song.

In the following year, 1803, Oersted, simultaneously with Davy, discovered that acids increased the strength of a voltaic battery more than did salts.

After Davy Force signed with Chicago, and then breached his contract to play in Boston, Hulbert became discouraged by the " contract jumping " as well as the overall disorganization of the N. A., and thus spearheaded the movement to form a stronger organization.

A type of Davy lamp with apertures for gauging flame height

The Davy lamp is a safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres, consisting of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen.

The first trial of a Davy lamp with a wire sieve was at Hebburn Colliery on 9 January 1816.

If flammable gas mixtures were present, the flame of the Davy lamp burned higher with a blue tinge.

He also collaborated with musical director Doug Trevor on a one-hour ABC television special entitled ‘’ Pop Goes Davy Jones ’’, which featured new artists The Jackson Five and The Osmonds.

In tribute to Jones, Lingfield Park announced that the first two races on the card for 3 March 2012 would be renamed the " Hey Hey We're The Monkees Handicap " and the " In Memory of Davy Jones Selling Stakes " with successful horses in those races accompanied into the Winners ' Enclosure by some of The Monkees ' biggest hits.

The experience with Davy gave Stephenson a lifelong distrust of London-based, theoretical, scientific experts.

While Harry's personal relationships have not been followed as much as those of his brother, most media attention has been focused on his relationship with Chelsy Davy.

In April 2010, it was announced that Rhythm Devils will tour in the summer of 2010 with a new lineup including Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann ( assorted percussion ), Keller Williams ( guitar, vocals ), Sikiru Adepoju ( talking drum ), Davy Knowles ( guitar, vocals ), and Andy Hess ( bass ).

* Thomas Wedgwood publishes an account of his experiments in photography, along with Humphry Davy.

1977 saw him performing with former band-mate Davy Jones in a stage production of the Harry Nilsson musical The Point!

Peter Tork joined ' Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart ' onstage for a guest appearance on their concert tour on July 4, 1976 at Disneyland, and following on from this later that year he reunited with his fellow former bandmates Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz in the studio for the recording of the single " Christmas Is My Time of The Year " b / w " White Christmas ", which saw a limited release for fan club members that holiday season.

* British — Burnaby, Davy: The Co-Optimists ( revue of 1921 — and revised continually up to 1926 — played in Pierrot costumes, with music and lyrics by various entertainers ; filmed in 1929 ); Cannan, Gilbert: Pierrot in Hospital ( 1923 ); " Cryptos " and James T. Tanner: Our Miss Gibbs ( 1909 ; musical comedy played in Pierrot costumes ); Down, Oliphant: The Maker of Dreams ( 1912 ); Drinkwater, John: The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot ( 1913 ; music by James Brier ); Housman, Laurence, and Harley Granville-Barker: Prunella: or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1906, rev.

As a producer he has worked with U2 ( on their War album ), Van Morrison, Kate Bush, The Dubliners, Planxty, Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane, Patrick Street, Stockton's Wing and fellow Limerickman Richard Harris.

Eisner spent six months designing the new incarnation of the Gill-man with Mark McCreery ( Jurassic Park, and Davy Jones ' designer ).

Jurado returned to Hollywood in 1965, with the film Smoky, directed by George Sherman, with Davy Crockett.

The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.