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Headword Date Article Type
Faraday, Michael 1791 - 1867 P
Maxwell, James Clerk 1831 - 1879 P
Colin Maclaurin discovers his uniformly rotating self-gravitating spheroids 1742 T
Joseph Black discovers that ice absorbs heat without changing temperature when melting 1761 T
Electrical inverse-square law proposed by Joseph Priestly 1767 T
Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press 1795 T
Gravitational constant measured by Henry Cavendish 1798 T
Infrared radiation discovered by Herschel 1800 T
Thomas Young demonstrates the wave nature of light and the principle of interference 1801 T
Atomic table of weights produced by John Dalton 1802 T
Atomic ideas introduced into chemistry 1803 T Note
Elements of sodium and potassium isolated by Sir Humphry Davy 1806 T
Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic jack 1812 T
Stress birefringence discovered by David Brewster 1816 T
Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic radiation 1821 T Note
Electromagnet invented by William Sturgeon 1823 T
Atomic theory formulated by John Dalton 1827 T Note
First observation of Brownian motion 1827 T Note
Law of induction stated by Michael Faraday 1831 T
Laws of electrolysis stated by Michael Faraday 1832 T

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