This Month in Chemical History – May Edition, Part 2
Posted on May 31st, 2009
by Admin
by Harold Goldwhite
In the previous column I traced the career of Humphry Davy to 1800. In 1801 he was invited by Count Rumford to a position at the relatively new Royal Institution in London. There Davy was eventually able to continue his own research, but first had to work up lectures on the chemistry of tanning, and with his usual thoroughness he did experiments on that subject; and on the applications of chemistry to agriculture. He later published a well-received book on that topic, and developed techniques of soil analysis.
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