Atoms by Callie

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Democritus

    Democritus
    460 B.C.
    – developed idea of atoms
    –"if you bread matted in half, and then break it in half again, how many breaks will you have to make befor you can break it no more?"
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    • thought the idea of atoms was worthless. influenced many people to think it was worthless because he had a great influence on societly.
  • Dicovery of America

    Dicovery of America
    Christopher Columbas accidently discovered it while trying to reach India by proving the earth round.
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    invented by Thomas Newcomen
  • Antoine Lavorsier

    Antoine Lavorsier
    • first to make an extensive list of the elements.
  • First Train

    First Train
    invented by William Jessup
  • First Steam Boat

    First Steam Boat
    invented by John Fitch
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust
    • invented the law of definate proportions and wrote a paper on it. the law was not accepted until 1811.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    -used chemicals to show that matter seemed to consist of elementry lumpy particals. knew the evidence pointed to something fundemental.
  • Amadeu Avagadro

    Amadeu Avagadro
    • hypothisiszed now's avagado's law. V/n=k
  • Assisnaton of Abraham Lincoln

    Assisnaton of Abraham Lincoln
    shot by john wilks booth
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes
    -developed vaccume tube that allowed him to produce cathodode ray tubes with a smaller residual gas pressure. -cathodode rays were negitivly charged by studing deflection of cathode rays by magnetic fields.
  • first car

    first car
    invented by Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank
  • Henri Bequenel

    Henri Bequenel
    • Discovered radio activity
  • J.J. Thompson

    J.J. Thompson
    -discovered electron and proosed the "rasin in pudding" atom model.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    • discovered light eliminated heart from an object and invented the quantu therory.
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie
    • shared in the diescovery of radio activity.
  • first airplane

    first airplane
    by the Wright brothers.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    • emergy+mass * speed of light (squared) e=mc(squared)
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    • with the oil drop expiriment found the unit charge of electron allowin gthe calculation of the mass of the electron and positively charged atoms.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    • bombarded atoms with alpha rays. found that the positive matter must exist in the middle. then set up a new model more like the solar system.
  • Henery Mosley

    Henery Mosley
    • discovered each atom's neuculas had a unique electric charge.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    • made an approximation on the planetary model of the atom.
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie
    • believed Bohr's model was incorrect and proved it so by using waves.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    • made mechanical model or quantum mechenical model of the atom used today.
  • Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse
    walt disney's "mickey mouse" took off.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    • stated with the uncertainty principal that it's impossible to know precicely both the velosity and the precision of a partical at the same time.
  • discovery of AIDS

    discovery of AIDS
    us center of disease control discovered it in 5 homosexual men in LA.
  • Twin Towers

    Twin Towers
    World Trdae centers attacked and collapsed