Richard Laming

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Richard Laming (* around 1798; † May 3, 1879 in Arundel (West Sussex) ) was an English doctor, naturalist , inventor, chemist and industrialist.

Its origin is uncertain. In 1825 he qualified for membership in the Royal College of Surgeons and he set up a practice in London. Between 1838 and 1851 he also dealt with electricity and published hypotheses about the electrical composition of atoms, where he was one of the first to start from particles with a smallest and indivisible electrical charge (see elementary charge ). In 1838 he moved to Paris for a decade, where he was viewed as an eccentric. On his return he devoted himself to chemistry and worked in the luminous gas industry.

He received several patents:

  • 1844: Improvements in the purification and use of ammonia
  • 1847: a continuous recuperator
  • 1850: Laming process, a method for removing hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from luminous gas with the Laming mass
  • 1861: Improvements in the production of alkali carbonate solutions

Publications

  • On the Primary Forces of Electricity ; 1838
  • Observations on a Paper by Prof. Faraday Concerning Electrical Conduction and the Nature of Matter ; 1845
  • Matter and Force: An Analytical and Synthetical Essay on Physical Causation ; 1851
  • A New View of Electrical Action ; 1858
  • God in second causes: a physical principia ; 1873
  • The Spirituality of Causation: A Scientific Hypothesis ; 1874

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eLexicon; Technology, trade and industry - chemical industry
personal data
SURNAME Laming, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English physician, naturalist, inventor, chemist and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1798
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1879
Place of death Arundel (West Sussex)