Taylor Atom History Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Democritus

    Democritus
    Discovered matter was made of small particles called atoms. 400 B.C.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Rejected Democritus's theory. (384-322) B.C.
  • Antonie Lavosier

    Antonie Lavosier
    Discovered the combustion theory, conversation of mass.
  • Joseph Priestly

    Joseph Priestly
    Discovered oxygen.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
  • Lewis and Clark expedition

    Lewis and Clark expedition
    Lewis and Clark started their expedition across the United States.
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro
    Avogadro's hypothesis, the same temerature and pressure, equal volume and gases contain the same numberof molecules or atoms.
  • Erie Canal

    Erie Canal
    The construction of the Erie Canal in New York.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    Removal of the Indians to the west for the settlers to move in and grow crops.
  • First form of photography.

    First form of photography.
    Image on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide.
  • Abraham Assassination.

    Abraham Assassination.
    Shot in the head at Ford's Theatre, by a wel known actor, he died the next morning in the hospital.
  • William Crooks

    William Crooks
    Discovered cathode rays had different properties, used in olf style tv's.
  • Henro Becquerel

    Henro Becquerel
    Discovered some spntaneously decompose and give off very penetrating rays.
  • J.J, Thompson

    J.J, Thompson
    Discovered the element and proposed a model of the structure of the atom.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    Discovered when you vibrate atoms enough you can measure the energy in discreye units, units of the energy packets, quanta's.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Discovered the quanta behaved like discrete particles.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    Discovered the charge and mass of an electron.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Theoryl that electrons do not spiral into the nucleus and come up with some rules for what happens.
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley
  • Ernest Rutherord

    Ernest Rutherord
    Discovered protons, first identified building blicks of the nuclei of all elements.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    The 19th amendment was passed giving women the right to vote.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    Matrix mechanics, fit with the conception of electrons as partial.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    Theory that was like the violin but hte vibrations traveled in a circle, and gave it a symbol.
  • Louise de Broglie

    Louise de Broglie
    Discovered electons can act as waves
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    Discovered the neutron.
  • World Wide web

    World Wide web
    Started inventing the World Wide Web.
  • adame Curie

    adame Curie
    Uranium and thorium spontaneous decay process radioactivity.
  • Animal Clons

    Animal Clons
    Animal coning was made for livestock produces.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    Terrorist attack on the twin towers.