#history of science

Stories tagged “history of science” in the Weird Science History archive — 6 stories connected by this topic.

• The Motor That Ran for Twenty-Six Years on a Secret Room Full of Compressed Air
• The Blank Squares That Predicted Three Undiscovered Elements
• The Ether-Hunting Machine That Found Nothing — and Broke Physics
• From Frog Legs to Lithium: A Short History of the Battery
• The Alchemist Who Boiled Urine Looking for Gold and Found Phosphorus
• The Astronomer With a Metal Nose and a Beer-Drinking Elk

Related topics: #physics #Albert Einstein #alchemy #astronomy #battery #chemiluminescence #chemistry #electricity