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Hace 4 días · Newton would need an accurate measure of this constant to prove his inverse-square law. Reasonably accurate measurements were not available in until the Cavendish experiment by Henry Cavendish in 1797.
Hace 4 días · Cavendish discovered hydrogen as a colorless, odourless gas that burns and can form an explosive mixture with air, and published a paper on the production of water by burning inflammable air (that is, hydrogen) in dephlogisticated air (now known to be oxygen), the latter a constituent of atmospheric air (phlogiston theory).
Hace 5 días · Mendeleev’s Masterpiece. The periodic table, devised by Dmitri Mendeleev, was a pivotal milestone in the discovery of elements. It organized the known elements based on their atomic weights and chemical properties, allowing scientists to predict the existence of undiscovered elements.
Hace 3 días · Autistic people before autism. There are few examples of people now understood to be autistic were described long before autism was named. The Table Talk of Martin Luther, compiled by his note taker, Mathesius, contains the story of a 12-year-old boy who may have been autistic with high support needs. [16] .
Hace 3 días · Cavendish, Lord Waterpark. — Henry, a natural son of Sir Henry Cavendish (elder brother of the first Earl of Devonshire), became possessed of the Doveridge estate by his father's gift, and was immediate ancestor of Henry Cavendish, Esq., who was created a Baronet in 1755, and was grandfather of Richard, Lord Waterpark, whose mother was ...
Hace 3 días · Henry Cavendish Although he basically discovered hydrogen, Henry had notoriously bad social skills and sat at home all day. His discoveries weren’t found out until nearly 100 years after his death by James Maxwell and by that time other people had made pretty much all of his discoveries and received the credit.
Hace 5 días · At the same time Clapham had inhabitants of note in the scientific world. Cavendish Street takes its name from Henry Cavendish, who lived in retirement in a house there (recently rebuilt) while he determined the density of the earth. J. P.
