Physics Timeline

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  • Constant Acceleration

    Constant Acceleration
    1589 Galileo Galilei uses balls rolling on inclined planes to show that different weights fall with the same constant acceleration

  • Planetary Motion

    Planetary Motion
    1609 Johannes Kepler states his first two empirical laws of planetary motion

  • First Telescope

    First Telescope
    1609 Galileo Galilei builds his first telescope

  • Rotation of the Sun

    Rotation of the Sun
    1613 Galileo Galilei uses sunspots to demonstrate the rotation of the sun

  • Force Law

    Force Law
    1665 Isaac Newton deduces the inverse-square gravitational force law from the acceleration of the moon

  • Lightning!

    Lightning!
    1752 Benjamin Franklin shows that lightning is electricity

  • Heat as Energy

    Heat as Energy
    1798 Count Rumford has the idea that heat is a form of energy

  • Electric Battery

    Electric Battery
    1800 Alessandro Volta announces his invention of the electric battery

  • Electromagnetic induction

    Electromagnetic induction
    1831 Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction

  • Radio Waves

    Radio Waves
    1888 Heinrich Hertz discovers radio waves

  • Theory of Relativity

    Theory of Relativity
    1915 Albert Einstein completes his theory of general relativity