A new digital platform reveals the thoughts and discoveries of British chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy for the first time in a project involving UCL’s Professor Frank James. Volunteers transcribed 13,000 pages of notebooks and lecture notes, uncovering new insights into the man best known to the public for his invention of the miners’ safety lamp, otherwise known as the Davy Lamp. The notes reveal, for instance, that potassium and sodium may well have been named potarchium and sodarchium,