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To: average joe who wrote (44631)	1/15/2006 7:15:19 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Is that your own list, or somebody else's opinion? I rather like Coleridge better than 217. He and my great great great great great grandfather used to pal around. I don't really claim Davy, because my grandfather, R...l Davy, was rather a cad. Not to mention that Davy and Coleridge were both the 19th century equivalent of glue sniffers. Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist, was born on the 17th of December 1778 at or near Penzance in Cornwall.... ...One of his first discoveries at the Pneumatic Institution on the 9th of April 1799 was that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is perfectly respirable, and he narrates that on the next day he became absolutely intoxicated through breathing sixteen quarts of it for near seven minutes. This discovery brought both him and the Pneumatic Institution into prominence. The gas itself was inhaled by Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge among other distinguished people, and promised to become fashionable, while further research yielded Davy material for his Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide, published in 1800, which secured his reputation as a chemist. nndb.com