Chemistry Timeline

  • 460

    Democritus: Concept of an atom

    Democritus: Concept of an atom
    460-370 BC. Greek Philosospher proposed the concept of the atom, believed matter was made up of individual particles called atoms.
  • Jan 9, 1439

    Johanna Gutenburg: Printing press

    Johanna Gutenburg: Printing press
    Printing press in Mainz, Germany: The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. The first confirmed record of a press appeared in a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg
  • Thomas Newcomen: Steam engine

    Thomas Newcomen: Steam engine
    Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines.[
  • John Dalton: Atomic Theory

    John Dalton: Atomic Theory
    1766-1844 John Dalton created the development of the modern atomic theory.
  • Antonie Lavosier: Periodic Table

    Antonie Lavosier: Periodic Table
    Compiled a list of elements known at the time, made a simple periodic table.
  • Joseph Proust: Law of constant composition

    Joseph Proust: Law of constant composition
    Law of conservation of matter, in a chemical reaction matter is neither created nor destroyed.
  • Amadeo Avagadro: Molecular Theory

    Amadeo Avagadro: Molecular Theory
    contributions to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law. In tribute to him, the number of elementary entities (atoms, molecules, ions or other particles
  • Asprin

    Asprin
    scientists discovered that it was the compound called salicin in willow plants, which is responsible for pain relief. But it was father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, who first discovered the pain relieving properties of the willow plant in the 5th century, B.C.
  • Tube Pressure Gauge

    In 1849, the Bourdon tube pressure gauge was patented by Eugene Bourdon.
  • William Crookes: Cathode Ray

    William Crookes: Cathode Ray
    I couldn't find an exact year that William Crookes created this but, radiation from the cathode strikes light- chemicals which made the television.
  • Thomas Edison: Phonograph

    Thomas Edison: Phonograph
    The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison
  • Charles Brush: Wind Turbines

    Charles Brush: Wind Turbines
    Wind turbines for grid electricity invented by Charles F. Brush in 1888.
  • J.J. Thomson: Mass

    J.J. Thomson: Mass
    1856-1940 Started a series of cathode ray tube experiments to determine the ratio of its charge to its mass.
  • Max Planck: Quanta

    Max Planck: Quanta
    1858-1947 studied the light emitted from heated objects, matter can gain or lose energy only in a small, specific amounts cakked quanta.
  • Henri Becquerel: Radioactivity

    Henri Becquerel: Radioactivity
    Discovered radioactivity, won Noble prize
  • Madame Curie: Radioactivity

    Madame Curie: Radioactivity
    conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
  • Henry Moseley: Atomic Number

    Henry Moseley: Atomic Number
    1877-1915 Discovered that atoms of each element contain a positive charge in their nuclei., number of protons in an atom ideantify the atomic number.
  • Ernest Rutherford: Atom

    Ernest Rutherford: Atom
    1871-1937 Won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, studied hown positively changed particles interact with solid material.
  • Robert Milikan: Charge of an electron

    Robert Milikan: Charge of an electron
    1868-1953 Determined the charge of an electron, singole unit of negative charges.
  • Niels Bohr: Model of the atom

    Niels Bohr: Model of the atom
    Made a quantum model for the hydrogen atom
  • Albert Einstein: Theory

    Albert Einstein: Theory
    developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics
  • Louis deBroglie: New Model

    Louis deBroglie: New Model
    1892-1987 Explained how electrons are arranged, fixed energy levels of Bohr's model.
  • Werner Heisenberg: Model

    Werner Heisenberg: Model
    1901-1976 New atomic model, Wrote many papers
  • Erwin Schrodinger: Quantum mechanical model of the atom

    Erwin Schrodinger: Quantum mechanical model of the atom
    1887-1961 Furthered the wave-particle theory, quantum mechanical model of the atom
  • James Chadwick: Neutron

    James Chadwick: Neutron
    1891-1974 Showed that the nucleus also contained another substance, neutron.
  • Ladislo Biro: Ball-point pen

    Ladislo Biro: Ball-point pen
    The ball-point pen was invented by Ladislo Biro in 1938. A patent battle erupted; learn how Parker and Bic won the war.
  • Dee Horton: Sliding door

    Dee Horton: Sliding door
    Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt invented the sliding automatic door
  • Barbie Doll: Ruth Handler

    Barbie Doll: Ruth Handler
    The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler .
  • Aristotle: Rejected the atomic theory

    Aristotle: Rejected the atomic theory
    384-322 BC. Rejected the concept of the atom, didn't believe that empty space could exist.