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Birth Date and Location
Nice, France -
Early Life
His brother Fredrick was born -
Early Life
His mother (Lady Anne Grey) died -
Education
He attended Dr. Newcomb's Academy in Hackney, England -
Education
He entered Peterhouse, Cambridge -
Early Life
He started his own laboratory -
Major Discovery
He explained heat by describing it as the motion of water. -
Personal Life
He was elected as a member of the Royal Society which is a club for scientists. -
Product Produced
Using his exacting experimental skills, Cavendish was the first to distinguish this inflammable air from ordinary air and to investigate its specific properties. He presented a paper detailing his findings. -
How He Influenced Modern Life
He published a papaer about the formation of "inflammable air" also known as hydrogen, by the action of dilute acids on metal. This knowledge impacts modern day because it led to more knowledge about the element hydrogen -
Accomplishment
His first paper was published, called "Factitious Air" -
Accomplishment
He won the Copley Medal because of his first published paper, "Factitious Air" -
Major Discovery
He was the first to recognize hydrogen gas as a distinct substance in 1783 for which he calculated their densities as well as the densities of several other gases. He showed that it produced dew, which appeared to be water, upon being burned. He also found it to be much less dense than air. -
Product Produced
He described one of his own inventions in a paper. It was the eudiometer, it was a method to measure a gas by weighing it. -
Personal Life
He becamse one of the richest men of his time because his dad died. -
Personal Life
He moved to a house in Clapman, England -
Important Experiment
He investigated the composition of air and experimented using hydrogen and ordinary air, they were combined in known raitios causeing an explosion with a spark of electricity. -
Experiment
Cavendish hung a dumbbell from a fine string. He then placed two large lead weights below the dumbell, and was able to see a small twisting in the string. From this small twist in the string he was able to measure the force between the objects. After measuring the force, masses, and distance, the gravitational constant could be calculated. -
Accomplishment
He became the manager of the Royal Institution of Great Britian -
Death Date
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Scientists Influenced by him
James Maxwell finished some of Cavendish's unfinished work. Cavendish left a lot of his work about the conductivity of metal and the theory of chemical equations unfinished, Maxwell finished it. -
Scientists that Influenced him
Joseph Priestley reported an experiment of warltire in which the explosion of the two gases had left a dew on the sides of a previous dry vessel. Cavendish studied this, prepared water in measurable quantityand got an approximately correct figure for its volume composition.
