![]() ![]() He kept this journal for the next 57 years and is an acknowledged pioneer of this science. In Kendal, Dalton started to keep a metrological journal, he made his own thermometers, barometers and other instruments. Dissenters were debarred from the Universities until 1851. The school possessed Newton's Principia, a six volume works of Robert Boyle, a 2 foot reflecting telescope, a double microscope and a double barrelled air pump. This school was well endowed by Quaker benefactors who included John Fotheringill, London physician and Abraham Darby who devised the process of smelting iron ore with coke. After 2 years this school closed and he did field work until in 1781.Īt 15, he joined his brother and cousin teaching at the new Quaker school in Kendal. ![]() At 12 years of age we find him running a school in the barn of the Quaker meeting house. He spent some time in the service of Elihu Robinson, Gentleman. He was taught to read and write at the village Quaker school. John Dalton was born in 1766 to Quaker weavers in Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland. He also contributed to physics and meteorology. This man became known as the Father of Chemistry. Manchester businesses and shops closed for the day. The funeral procession contained 100 carriages. John Taplin: In 1844 there was a great funeral in Manchester, 40,000 citizens came to the Town Hall to see the body of a 78 year old man laid out in Quaker grey. Here, someone of similar Quaker background gives a short history. He proposed an atomic theory for the elements. It was written by a man so modest and thrifty that few may know his name today. ![]() Robyn Williams: This year marks the 200th anniversary of a paper which revolutionised chemistry. ![]()
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