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Adventures in CyberSound: Davy, Humphry |
 | | In 1795 he was apprenticed to a Penzance surgeon, and in 1797 took up chemistry. |
| | Humphry Davy was serving as an apothecary's apprentice in Penzance, Cornwall when, in 1798, luck and a knack for chemistry secured him a position at Dr. Thomas Beddoes' Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, an institution dedicated to researching the medical uses of gases. |
| | He was educated at the grammar school in nearby Penzance and, in 1793, at Truro. |
| www.acmi.net.au /AIC/DAVY_BIO.html (2001 words) |
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