Inventions

  • 460 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    Said that everything had to made up of something and they have to atoms
  • 277 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Rejected the concept of the atom
  • Making of vaccinations

    Making of vaccinations
  • Antonie Lavosier

    Antonie Lavosier
    Found the elements Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust
    Stated the law of definite proportions
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    Said that all matter is composed of small particles called atoms. All atoms of a given element are identical, having the same size, mass, and chemical properties
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro
    Avogadro hypothesized that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules
  • First steam engine

    First steam engine
  • First camera

    First camera
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes
    Discovered thallium
  • The first car

    The first car
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    identified a simpler way to detect radio waves
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie
    Discovered rays that could travel through solid wood and flesh
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson
    Discovered the electron
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    Founder of the quantum Theory
  • First flight

    First flight
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel
    Discovered radioactivity through his investigations of uranium and other substances
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    Measured the charge of an elevtron
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    Discovered the Neutron
  • henry Moseley

    henry Moseley
    Discovered the wavelength of an x-ray becomes shorter as the atomic weigh increases
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Explained the photoelectric effect
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Explained what happens in an atom. Created a picture of the atomic structure
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    Combined the equations for the behavior of eves with the De Broglie equation to come up with the mathematical model for the distribution of electrons of an atom
  • Louis De Broglie

    Louis De Broglie
    Discovered the wave mechanics theory
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    Discovered the theory of quantum mechanics and its applications. resulted in the discovery of allotropic forms of hydrogen
  • Declaration of human rights

    Declaration of human rights
  • Discovery of the internet

    Discovery of the internet
  • First cell phone

    First cell phone
  • First radio

    First radio