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

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