A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen volume 8
A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen volume 8
George Godfrey Cunningham
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In the course of these experiments he was led to the important discovery of the gas blow-pipe, which in its turn became the cause of new researches and new trains of inquiry, which not only cost him his time, but nearly cost him his life; the apparatus (as yet imperfect) having, according to Sir H. Davy's pre- diction, exploded with tremendous violence. In one of his letters to a friend, in September, 1816, he says: "I sacrificed the whole month of August to chemistry. Oh, how I did work ! It w...as delightful play to me; and I stuck to it, day and night. At last, having blown off both my eye-brows and eye-lashes, and nearly blown out both my eyes, I ended with a bang that shook all the houses round my lecture-room. The Cambridge paper has told you the result of all this alchemy, for I have actually decomposed the earths, and attained them in a metallic form. " Dr Clarke's character for versatility and application was a frequent theme of admiration in the university ; and we remember, says a writer in the * New Monthly Magazine, ' to have seen some verses attributed to Professor Smyth, in which his numerous occupations are made to accumulate on his hands, and to throw him into the most ludicrous and provoking embarrassment.
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