A.J. Wright, MLS
Nitrous oxide became the means for public and private entertainment even before it escaped from the laboratory work done by Humphry Davy at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, England. Davy started research at Thomas Beddoes Institute in late 1798. The investigators hoped to find treatments for diseases such as tuberculosis, which appeared increasingly as Britain became industrialized. Davy began a series of experiments with different gases, almost killing himself in the