Facts
- Hydrogen was discovered by Henry Cavendish
- Hydrogen was discovered in London, England
- Hydrogen was discovered in the year 1766. Ten years later, the United States would sign the Declaration of Independence.
- The Origin of Hydrogen's name comes from the Greek words "hydro" and "genes" meaning "water" and "generator"
Hydrogen was first conceived in an science article by Robert Boyle in 1671when he described the reaction between iron filings and dilute acids which results in the evolution of gaseous hydrogen ("inflammable solution of Mars" : iron).
Later, Henry Cavendish, an English chemist and physicist discovered that this substance was actually an element. While testing it over he found it to be "inflammable air from metals". At the time, Cavendish thought that hydrogen emerted from metals instead of the acid, though hydrogen’s properties were correctly describe by Cavendish.
When John Dalton in 1803 was experimenting with the idea that all matter is composed of atoms, he published an article on the idea we use today and make the symbol below hydrogen.
On a last note, what does Forrest Gump have to add?
