Invention Timeline - Thomas Anderson, Scottish Organic and Agricultural Chemist; He Wrote on the Platino-Pyridine Bases, and on the Polymerisation of Pyridine and Picoline
b. ? 1819 and d. November 2, 1874
Scottish organic and agricultural chemist. His earliest researches were on a new mineral species and on the atomic weight of nitrogen. He conducted an elaborate inquiry into “The Products of the Destructive Distillation of Animal Substances,” and discovered a new pyridine series and certain fatty amines. He examined the action of sulphur on fixed oils and obtained a new, definite organic sulphide. He wrote on the Platino-pyridine Bases, and on the Polymerisation of Pyridine and Picoline.
If you seek for strange things you shall find them,
But the finding shall bring you to grief;
The dead lock the portals behind them,
And he who breaks through is a thief.
The soul with such ill-gotten plunder
With its premature knowledge oppressed,
Shall grope in unsatisfied wonder
Alway by the shores of unrest.
—Unrest: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1660, October 21-1734, May 14—George Ernest Stahl lived. He invented the theory of “phlogiston” and held that every muscular action proceeds from an impulse of the mind. He founded the animistic school of medicine, and wrote 250 medical works.
1832—William Crookes, English physician and chemist was born. 1861—His method of producing extreme vacua. 1861—Discovered the metal thallium. 1865—Crookes discovered the sodium amalgamation process for separating gold and silver from their ores.
