Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science/Humphry Davy Edit-a-thon - 4 May 2017

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  • Are you interested in history, literature, science, or technology?
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Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was one of the most famous scientific figures of his day, best known for experimenting with nitrous oxide (laughing gas), discovering several chemical elements, and inventing a miners’ safety lamp that revolutionised industry. But did you know that he was also a friend of Byron, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, and a poet himself?

Much of Wikipedia’s information about Davy needs to be improved – and you can help us achieve this! Learn new skills and meet new people during our free Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We’ll train you in how to edit a Wikipedia page, give you all the information about Davy that you’ll need, and will even provide a free lunch. We can also give you a free certificate after the event. All you need to do is bring a computer.

Professor Sharon Ruston, of the Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, is one of the co-editors of The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2018.

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  1. User:Mark L MacDonald
  2. User:Aplacey
  3. User:Sharonruston
  4. User:Anoucks.
  5. User:JNwah
  6. User:pigmint
  7. User:Harrietnewnes 
  8. User:HPLane
  9. User:Pashcroft93
  10. User:Stephen Pumfrey
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Resources

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Potential topics, selected resources, and other useful resources

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Topics

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If you intend to work on a topic listed below, please sign your name next to it. Where discussion of a topic already exists on Davy's page, a link to the relevant section is provided. During the edit-a-thon, you may wish to expand these existing sections, paste your draft edit into a different section, or create a new section of your own.

  1. Davy's early life (Humphry Davy#Education, apprenticeship and poetry)Harrietnewnes (talk) 10:28, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Davy's poetry (the Annual Anthology poems and 'Life') (Humphry Davy#Education, apprenticeship and poetry) (User:JNwah)
  3. Davy at the Medical Pneumatic Institution (Humphry Davy#Pneumatic Institution)
  4. Davy's involvement with Lyrical Ballads and William Wordsworth (Humphry Davy#Pneumatic Institution) Sharonruston (talk) 11:08, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Davy isolates potassium, sodium, and boron (Humphry Davy#Discovery of new elements)
  6. Davy isolates magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium (Humphry Davy#Discovery of new elements) Pashcroft93 (talk) 10:30, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Davy demonstrates chlorine to be an element (Humphry Davy#Discovery of chlorine) User:aplacey
  8. Davy's European travels c. 1814 (Humphry Davy#European travels) HPLane (talk) 10:34, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Davy demonstrates iodine to be an element (Humphry Davy#European travels)
  10. Davy's work on the safety lamp, and the ensuing controversy 1 (Humphry Davy#Davy lamp)Pigmint (talk) 10:33, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Davy's work on the safety lamp, and the ensuing controversy 2 (Humphry Davy#Davy lamp)
  12. Davy's work on Herculaneum papyri Anoucks. (talk) 10:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Davy's Presidency of the Royal Society (Humphry Davy#Last years and death)Stephen Pumfrey (talk) 10:41, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Davy's work on the electrochemical protection of ships' copper bottoms User:aplacey
  15. Davy's later life (Humphry Davy#Last years and death)

Selected resources

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  • Amin, Wahida (2013). The Poetry and Science of Humphry Davy (PDF) (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Salford, UK).
  • Faraday, Michael (1991). Bowers, Brian; Symons, Lenore (eds.). Curiosity Perfectly Satisfyed: Faraday's Travels in Europe, 1813-1815. London, UK: Peregrinus. ISBN 9780863412349.
  • James, Frank A. J. L. (1992). "Davy in the Dockyard: Humphry Davy, the Royal Society and the Electro-chemical Protection of the Copper Sheeting of His Majesty's Ships in the mid 1820s". Physis. 29: 205–25.
  • Ruston, Sharon (2013). Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-26428-2.

Other useful resources

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Articles that were created and/or improved during the edit-a-thon

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During the event the article on Humphry Davy increased from 43 kilobytes (kb) to 64 kb, so increasing by roughly 50% of its original size. Here is a breakdown of some of the larger changes:

  1. Humphry Davy - Section on the Davy lamp expanded by Pigment
  2. Humphry Davy - Paragraph on Davy's involvement with Lyrical Ballads added by Sharonruston
  3. Humphry Davy - Paragraph on Davy's poetry was added by JNwah
  4. Humphry Davy - Section on Herculaneum papyri was created by Anoucks.
  5. Herculaneum papyri - Paragraph on Davy's involvement was added by Anoucks.
  6. Humphry Davy - Section on European Travels expanded with references added by HPLane
  7. Humphry Davy - Mention of poems for Anna Beddoes added, with references by Sharonruston
  8. Humphry Davy - Section on protection of ships' copper bottoms created by Aplacey
  9. Humphry Davy - Section on Davy's early life was expanded and improved by Harrietnewnes
  10. Humphry Davy - Paragraph on nitrogen trichloride accident was expanded and referenced by HPLane
  11. Humphry Davy - Section on his presidency of the Royal Society was created by Stephen Pumfrey
  12. Humphry Davy - Section on discovering and isolating elements was expanded by Pashcroft93

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