Davy's Return
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Owner:
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scoddule
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Released:
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Monday, October 22, 2012
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Origin:
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New South Wales, Australia
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MISSION 2 [current]: I've collected Davy's Return from Sennen and am taking it back to Sydney where I will release it again in http://coord.info/GC44CKT (Badger's Bazaar) for another mission to reach Nanjizal Two.
MISSION 1 [completed]: To trek around the globe from Australia to Cornwall -> aiming to arrive at a specific cache http://coord.info/GC33AP0 (To Nanjizal Two) and from there find my mum.
Sir Humphry Davy was born in Penzance, Cornwall (see bio below). I was born there a bit later on and have yet to earn my knighthood! I am releasing the Davy Lamp into the wild from my current home in Sydney, Australia to make it's way home. When it arrives at GC33AP0 I hope to get a friend to retrieve it and take it to my mum in Penzance.
From the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/davy_humphrey.shtml [sic]:
Davy was a British chemist best known for his experiments in electro-chemistry and his invention of a miner's safety lamp.
Humphry Davy was born on 17 December 1778 in Penzance in Cornwall. He was apprenticed to a surgeon and aged 19 went to Bristol to study science. There he investigated gases. He prepared and inhaled nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and in 1800 published the results of his work in 'Researches, Chemical and Philosophical'. This made his reputation and the following year he was hired as an assistant lecturer in chemistry at the Royal Institution. There he was a great success, with his lectures soon becoming a draw for fashionable London society. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1803 and was awarded its Copley Medal in 1805.
In 1800, the Italian scientist Alessandro Volta had introduced the first battery. Davy used this for what is now called electrolysis and was able to isolate a series of substances for the first time - potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium and magnesium the following year. He also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry.
Davy was now considered one of Britain's leading scientists and was knighted in 1812. In 1813, Davy set off on a two year trip to Europe. He visited Paris - even though Britain and France were at war - where he collected a medal awarded to him by Napoleon, and identified the element iodine for the first time.
In 1815, he received a letter from some Newcastle miners which told of the dangers they faced from methane gas. The gas often filled the mines, and could be sparked off by the candles they had in their helmets to light their work. The resulting fires and explosions caused many deaths. Davy separated the flame from the gas, and his 'Davy' lamp later became widely used. The same year George Stephenson, the railway engineer, also invented a safety lamp.
Davy was made a baronet in 1818 and from 1820 - 1827 was president of the Royal Society. He died on 29 May 1829 in Switzerland. His assistant, Michael Faraday, went on to establish an even more prestigious reputation than Davy.
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scoddule took it to CH31: 06 Hare today, gone tomorrow
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Southern England, United Kingdom
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scoddule took it to CH32: 07 Hare today, gone tomorrow
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Southern England, United Kingdom
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scoddule took it to CH33: 08 Hare today, gone tomorrow
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Southern England, United Kingdom
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scoddule took it to CH34: 09 Hare today, gone tomorrow
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Southern England, United Kingdom
- 86.83 miles
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scoddule took it to To Nanjizal Two
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South West England, United Kingdom
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scoddule retrieved it from To Nanjizal Two
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South West England, United Kingdom
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Davy's Return has reached it's destination! My friend has retrieved it from it's final location. From here it will go to my mum. Next time I return to the UK I will decide another mission for him.
Thank you to all who have assisted in the safe and successful journey from Sydney Australia to Cornwall, UK. A journey of 19,405km passing through 191 caches! Amazing!
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digger-1967 placed it in To Nanjizal Two
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South West England, United Kingdom
- 279.28 miles
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Dropped into cache at end of it's journey from Australia. Welcome home.
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Mini Digger discovered it
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Discovered this when digger-1967 picked it up to take to its goal
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Niugnep1 discovered it
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Discovered when digger-1967 picked up to put in its final cache!
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Droitwich Conquerors discovered it
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Discovered it when digger-1967 picked it up
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