Bentley would publish his first collection of clerihews Biography for Beginners in 1905, which included what is widely ...

Let there be light The common belief that Thomas Edison singlehandedly invented electric lighting in 1879 isn’t true. The first electric light was the arc light, invented by Sir Humphry Davy in ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Ether Controversy.—Dangerous Legislation” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 15 (December 1852), p. 117 doi:10.1038 ...

In 1809 Sir Humphrey Davy demonstrated before the Royal Society, London, that an arc light could be produced by touching two sticks of carbon connected to a 2000-cell electric battery. It is estimated ...

As Sir Humphry Rolleston points out in the foreword, twelve of the pioneers are British, four are from the United States, three from Central Europe, and two from France.

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Yes Minister TV sitcom BBC Two 1980 - 1984 22 episodes (3 series) Political satire in which well-meaning MP Jim Hacker has a fast introduction to the world of Whitehall and must then struggle against ...