Index

Chemistry discoveries

  • Oxygen

    Oxygen
    This was when oxygen was first discovered as a gas. This was big because it said there was more then one gas in the air.
  • battery

    battery
    Alessandro Volta invented the first battery. This was huge because this gave people energy that could move (somewhat)
  • Electromagnet

    Electromagnet
    Sturgeon William invents the first electromantet
  • Magnetic field

    Magnetic field
    In the year 1820 Oersted Hans made published he first concrete evidence that electricity and magnets can affect each other when he put a compass next to an electrical wire
  • Urea

    Urea
    This was the first organic compound that was created from inorganic compounds. This was a big breakthrough because at the time they were viewed as two different things.
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite
    This was when dynamite was first created and made an explosive entrance into existence.
  • The periodic table

    The periodic table
    This was the day that Dimitri Mendelev created the first modern peridoc table
  • Atomic Theory

    Atomic Theory
    Was when the modern atomic theory started to develop. This was the first step to the atomic theory that we have today
  • Electron

    Electron
    J.J. Tomson discovers the electron and wins the Nobel prize it cahnged the way that people looked at atoms from that point on
  • An atomic problem

    An atomic problem
    This was when the first atomic was tested and created in Alamogordo dessert by the Manhattan project