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Nice, France
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His brother Fredrick was born
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His mother (Lady Anne Grey) died
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He attended Dr. Newcomb's Academy in Hackney, England
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He entered Peterhouse, Cambridge
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He started his own laboratory
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He explained heat by describing it as the motion of water.
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He was elected as a member of the Royal Society which is a club for scientists.
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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.
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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
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His first paper was published, called "Factitious Air"
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He won the Copley Medal because of his first published paper, "Factitious Air"
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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.
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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.
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He becamse one of the richest men of his time because his dad died.
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He moved to a house in Clapman, England
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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.
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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.
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He became the manager of the Royal Institution of Great Britian
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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.
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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.
