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From: msb@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: coal mines and candles
Message-ID: <2009@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 16:21:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 17 16:21:22 1986
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Summary: 

> Right about the lamp, wrong about the inventor:
> 1) The name was Davy (Sir Humphrey): President of the Royal Society

Well, having seen 3 different wrong spellings, I can resist no longer.
The name is Sir Humphry Davy!  By the way, if you visit Penzance, you
can see his statue, on the main street just near the railway station.