Humphry in a sentence

A few retail shops such as Oswald’s, Gone Hollywood and Humphry’s remain closed but are fully stocked along with the Mortimer’s Market food stand.

Confronted with Sir Humphry's reported comments, the PM told Devon Live: “It’s absolute nonsense.

At the same time, the eminent scientist and Cornishman Humphry Davy was also looking at the problem.

Coincidentally one of the Royal Institution's assistants, John Payne, was sacked and Sir Humphry Davy had been asked to find a replacement; thus he appointed Faraday as Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution on 1 March 1813.

Homemade lye making for this process was unpredictable and therefore eventually led to the discovery of the sodium hydroxide by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy in the early 1800s.

However, in 1799, British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy decided to find out by experimenting on himself.

Humphry Davy attempted to isolate this new element in 1808 through electrolysis, but failed.

Humphry Davy developed the first incandescent light in 1802, followed by the first practical electric arc light in 1806.

In 1800, Sir Humphry Davy discovered the short-pulse electrical arc and presented his results in 1801.

In 1802, Humphry Davy had what was then, the most powerful electrical battery in the world at the Royal Institution.

In 1806, Humphry Davy decomposed potash and soda, employing a voltaic pile of approximately 250 cells, showing that these substances were respectively the oxides of potassium and sodium, which metals previously had been unknown.

In 1808, acting on Lavoisier's idea, Humphry Davy became the first to obtain samples of the metals by electrolysis of their molten earths, citation thus supporting Lavoisier's hypothesis and causing the group to be named the alkaline earth metals.

Includes the complete text of Humphry Davy's 1802 paper, which is the only known contemporary record of Wedgwood's experiments.

Invented by Humphry Davy around 1805, the carbon arc was the first practical electric light.

Research by Humphry Osmond Huxley had first heard of peyote use in ceremonies of the Native American Church in New Mexico soon after coming to the United States in 1937.

Sir Humphry Davy and Andrew Crosse were among the first to develop large voltaic piles.

Sir Humphry Davy described him as "a very coarse experimenter", who almost always found the results he required, trusting to his head rather than his hands.

Sir Humphry Davy 's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of electricity in simple electrolytic cells resulted from chemical action and that chemical combination occurred between substances of opposite charge.

The national party had concerns about Archer's selection, specifically relating to the UNA expenses allegations made by Humphry Berkeley, himself a former Conservative MP.