Science

  • First Halloween
    800 BCE

    First Halloween

    The Celts believed that the spirits of the dead roamed the towns and villages on the night of October 31.
  • Democritus
    460 BCE

    Democritus

    Atoms are solid, homogenous, indestructible, and invisible
  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Atoms didn't exist
  • First Clock

    First Clock

    Christiaan Huygens' invented the first pendulum clock,
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    credited with the discovery of oxygen
  • Antonie Lavosier

    Antonie Lavosier

    one of the first to use an analytical balance to monitor chemical reactions
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    All atoms of a given element are identical, having the same size, mass, and chemical properties. Atoms are specific elements are different from those of any other element.
  • Amadeo Avogadro

    Amadeo Avogadro

    hypothesis states that at the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases contain the same number of molecules or atoms.
  • First Computer

    First Computer

    Charles Babbage invented the first modern day computer
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    Determined the ratio of its charge to its mass
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    searching for an explanation as he studied the light emitted from heat objects
  • Robert Milikan

    Robert Milikan

    His oil drop experiment helped to quantify the charge of an electron, which contributed greatly to our understanding of the structure of the atom and atomic theory.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    well-known gold foil experiment in which he demonstrated that the atom has a tiny, heavy nucleus.
  • Williams Crookes

    Williams Crookes

    discovery of the element thallium and for his cathode-ray studies, fundamental in the development of atomic physics.
  • Louis deBroglie

    Louis deBroglie

    Proposed an idea that eventually accounted for the fixed energy levels of Bohr's model
  • Henry Mossly

    Henry Mossly

    Atoms of each element contain a unique positive charge in their nuclei
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    furthered the wave-particle theory proposed by deBroglie
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Showed that the nucleus also contained another subatomic particle, a neutral practical called the neutron
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    discovered radioactivity which was an early contribution to atomic theory.
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    discovery of two new elements, radium and polonium.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    proved to have profound implications for atomic models
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    electromagnetic radiation has both wavelike and particlelike natures
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    the hydrogen atom based on quantum theory that energy is transferred only in certain well defined quantities.
  • First NFL game

    First NFL game

    The NFL was founded by; Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Decatur Staleys, Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Indians Dayton Triangles, Hammond Pros, Massillon Tigers, Muncie Flyers, Rock Island Independents, Rochester Jeffersons
  • The first Target Store

    The first Target Store

    Target was known as Good fellow Dry Goods in 1902 and was then later changed to target in 1962. George Dayton is the founder
  • First Television

    First Television

    Philo Farnsworth and Charles Francis Jenkins made the first Television
  • First Cell Phone

    First Cell Phone

    Martian Cooper invented the first Cell Phone
  • Internet invented

    Internet invented

    Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
  • My Birthday

    My Birthday

    I was born on June 22, 1999
  • First olympic games on tv

    First olympic games on tv

    The VIII Olympic Winter Games, better known as the 1960 Winter Olympics, were played in Squaw Valley, California from February 18th through 28th, 1960. They were the first Olympic Games to be broadcast on television in the United States.