HackingTheUniverse

Humphry Davy was born in Cornwall, England, in 1778 and was known as a chemist. Davy used electric current from a voltaic pile to perform early forms of electrolysis and discovered sodium, potassium, barium, calcium, strontium and magnesium. He was the first to isolate barium and boron. He created the first electric arc lamp by running a current across a gap between charcoal sticks.

Michael Faraday worked as a laboratory assistant to Davy.

PRECURSOR:
1627 – Boyle
1718 – Roebuck
1728 – Black
1733 – Priestley
1736 – Watt
1743 – Lavoisier
1746 – Leyden jar
1748 – Berthollet

CONCURRENT:
1776 – Avogadro
1777 – Oersted
1781 – Stephenson
1791 – Faraday

SUBSEQUENT:
1820 – Becquerel
1828 – Swan
1845 – Roentgen
1847 – Yablochkov
1855 – vacuum tube
1856 – Tesla
1874 – incandescent light bulb (Woodward and Evans)
1879 – Hahn