Chapter 2: Perception Perfectly Novel

When sir humphry Davy was a teen he started in chemistry. At age 16 though, his father died and his godfather pushed him to do a medical career. So Davy taught himself. He taught himself the study of theology, physics, mechanics, and math. He started out reading Lavoisier's book" elementary treatise on chemistry". He tried to make this magical art into modern science. But Lavoisiers theory of heat was very controversial. So being the person Davy was he tried the experiment and published his findings claiming that it was wrong but it was Davy who was wrong. So at age 19, Davy left his medical apprenticeship to take a job at the pneumatic institute at Bristol. He started testing gases to see there effect on people except the people he tried them on wasn't but 1 person and that was himself that led to him almost dying on several occasions. He inhaled CO, CO2, and his most important discovery nitric oxide. In those days nitric oxide was thought to be poisonous but Davy did not die when he inhaled it. He instead felt a tingling sensation that made him start to laugh uncontrollably. He dubbed it the name laughing gas. He then started to experiment with it more and more and eventually published a 580 page report on it in 1800. By 1803 the pneumatic institute was no more.
Davy was soon appointed to the royal institution. He also received the Copley medal in 1803 which was the highest award the institution could give. Davy soon started messing with electricity. He found that when electricity was passed through water, the water molecules would separate into hydrogen and oxygen. He gave a lecture on this in 1806. He also started isolating chemicals such as sodium potassium calcium and barium for just a couple.
In 1812 faradays apprenticeship ended and he got a job working for Henri de la Roche. This was a complete 180 from what he was used to to. Faraday had no free time and was not encouraged to be a chemist by him. On march 1 1813, Faraday joined the royal society as a chief bottle washer. This put him very close to Davy and Davy soon let Faraday help by doing small chemical task but that soon led to bigger tasks including brewing nitrogen trichloride which was very explosive. Faraday also started helping with Davy's great lectures. Soon Davy left for a multi year trip across london.  Farady though he was gonna loose his only true mentor but Davy asked Faraday to join along. Faraday was thrilled but mrs Davy wasn't as excited...