History of Chemical Engineering

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  • 465

    The term "atom" was coined

    A man named Democritus first came up with the idea that matter was made of particles, and coined the term "atom".
  • May 4, 1100

    Oldest recorded instance of lodestone being used as a compass.

  • Birth of Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle introduced the laws of gases, as well as proposing the idea that small particles were combined to make molecules.

  • Otto von Guerike constructs the first vacuum pump

  • Joseph Priestly discovers oxygen and carbon monoxide

  • C.W. Scheele discovers metal oxidization (rust)

  • Birth of A.L. Lavioser, who discovered nitrogen as well as the composition of many organic materials. Sometimes regarded as the "Father of Chemistry"

  • Birth of A. Volta, who invented the first electric battery

  • Benjamin Franklin demonstrates that lightning is electricity

  • Count Rumford discovers that heat is a form of energy

  • Dmitri Mendeleev compiles the first edition of the Periodic Table

  • Charles Martin Hall figures out how to manufacture aluminum

  • Sir James Chadwick discovers the neutron

  • Birth of Harold C Urey, who would become one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project

  • The chemical mechanism to set off the first atomic bomb is created

  • Birth of F.H.C. Crick, who discovered the structure of the DNA molecule

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