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Dalton and the atoms Listen John Dalton was a happy man. He had always wanted to teach, although in the 18th century, this was somewhat unusual for someone from his social status. He was born as the s
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Mendeleev and the Periodic System Listen It was July 12, 1849 in Tobolsk, Siberia. Excitedly, the fifteen-year-old Dmitri Mendeleev clutched his high-school graduation certificate. As he studied the d
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Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements Listen The end of the 19th century is coming. It’s not the successful time for Poland. Due to the partitions, it’s divided between Austri
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available online:http://archive.org/details/radioactivesubst00ruthuoft. B Secondary Sources Andrade, E. N. da C : Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom, Garden City, N.Y. 1964. Heilbron, John L. : Historical Studies
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Guericke and vacuum Listen Wandering the streets of the city of Magdeburg Otto was poring over something he had heard: The latest astronomical considerations that the scientific (and the non-scientifi
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Lichtenberg and the electrophorus Listen Lichtenberg, who lived in the 18th century, was an outstanding naturalist, art critic, satirist, aphorist, and one of the creators of the German experimental p
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The mechanical theory of heat and Rumford's contribution Listen Benjamin Thompson, Bavarian Minister of War, went into the workshop to supervise the production of new cannons. As you may notice, Benja
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Mouchot and the solar cooker Listen The period in which we live is a time of many inventions, that change our lives. The pace of these changes is very large and seems to grow. Some believe that this p
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Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity Listen Irene was alone at home as her husband Frederic had to give a lecture early in the morning. Their two children were taken for a walk by the nanny, and
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The hard work of experimenting Listen Manchester, in the early 1840s. Manchester was a busy industrial town in these days, actually, it could be named as the industrial cen-ter of England, and in thos