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THE 19th CENTURY
The 19th century was mostly the time of researching on electricity and magnetism.
These were the leading sciences of the century. Many decisive inventions based on the achievement of that
sciences. The researches on the nature of electricity and magnetism influenced the better acquaintance of
atomic occurrences and the world of microelements. The scientists elaborated many of the laws of world's
microstructure constitution. At last in the 90ths of the 19th century, electron the first elementary molecule, was discovered.
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen lived in the years 1845-1923. Among the other his researches he
studied the occurrence of cathode radiation. That occurred
while the electric current flowed through the tube filled with rare gas. The tube started to illuminate
to the negative electrode. Invisible rays coming out of the cathode had to be responsible for that.
He observed their interaction with metals. He noticed that fluorescent crystals, placed near the set
of instruments used in the experiment, started to illuminate.
That happened even when he conducted the experiment in absolutely darkness. That occurrence he tried
to explain by the subsistence of unknown mysterious, new kind of radiation -
X-radiation. Roentgen discovered that the radiation was
absorbed by different materials in different degree. That let him make the first photo of alive person
hand skeleton.
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William Ramsay lived in the years 1852-1916. In 1894 he and John
Rayleigh both discovered a new element which Ramsay called argon. It didn't compound
with any other elements and it didn't fit in periodic table. The table had to be enlarged by one
column. A year later Ramsay discovered another element of that group - helium and in 1898
he isolated all noble gasses occurring in the air; that is: argon, neon, helium, krypton, xenon
and in 1910 - radon.
Apart from these researches he tried to interpretate Brownian movement explaining them as collisions of
observed bodies and invisible particles of medium.
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The scientist of the 19th century explained many occurrences connected with
electromagnetism and the kinetic theory of gases. X-raying was
discovered. There appeared some new equipment based on electromagnetic occurrences. Soon they were used
in practise in people's life and as the experimental equipment. At the and of the 19th century
the first elementary molecule was finally discovered - the electron.
ANCIENT TIMES |
MIDDLE AGES |
THE 16th AND 17th CENTURIES |
THE 18th CENTURY
THE 19th CENTURY |
THE CATHODE RAYS |
SUMMARY
  
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