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The Public Domain Review (publicdomainrev@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 01:47:33 JST The Public Domain Review

Born #onthisday in 1778, Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor and President of the Royal Society. Read @MikeJayNet's essay on Davy's pioneering early experiments with Nitrous Oxide (AKA Laughing Gas). https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-excellent-air-bag-humphry-davy-and-nitrous-oxide #otd
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  “O, Excellent Air Bag”: Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide
  
  The summer of 1799 saw a new fad take hold in one remarkable circle of British society: the inhalation of "Laughing Gas". The overseer and pioneer of these experiments was a young Humphry Davy, future President of the Royal Society. Mike Jay explores how Davy's extreme and near-fatal regime of self-experimentation with the gas not only marked a new era in the history of science but a turn toward the philosophical and literary romanticism of the century to come.

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