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TECHNOLOGY > chemist > Humphrey Davy
When Sir Humphry...
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When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impressed him. The finest collection of frames I ever saw, he said.
Source: In 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions, by Edmund Fuller, 1970.
-- Humphrey Davy, (Dec 17 1778-1829), English chemist; He discovered laughing gas, 1799 as well as calcium and sodium; invented miner's safety lamp, 1815.