Lavoiser

By TY2002

  • Lavoiser was born

  • Paper about improving street lighting

    He wrote a paper and published it

  • Elected onto the Royal Academy of Science

  • Married daughter of a Farmer General

  • Appointed to the National Gunpowder Commision

  • Showed that burning is a combination of a substance with oxygen

  • Began heat-measuring experiments

    He showed that the heat produced by respiration was equal to the heat produced when the same amount of oxygen was used to burn charcoal.

  • The Farmer's General was arrested

    Lavoisier was executed during the French Revolution