1862

Alexandre Bguyer de Chancourtois de Chancourtoiss

contribution to the Periodic Table was the 'vis tellurique' (telluric screw)
which was a list of elements he wrote on paper tape, wound around a
metal cylinder. The telluric screw was a three-dimensional placement of
the elements which made an early form of the periodic classification. It
weights of each element on the outside of the
had plotted atomic
cylinder so one full turn linked to an atomic weight increase of 16. De

Chancourtois was the first to use a periodic arrangement of all the
known elements although the telluric screw did not display all the
trends known correctly. De Chancourtoiss arrangement shows that
similar elements appear at periodic atom weights.

1860

1870

1869 Julius Lothar Meyer Meyer produced several

Periodic Tables between 1864-1870, his first one only
containing 28 elements, organized by valency and only
including the main group elements. In 1868, Meyer created
a more developed table that listed the elements in order of
atomic weight, the elements in vertical lines with the same
valency. Meyer was the first person to identify the periodic
trends in the properties of elements.

1864 John Newlands Newlands noticed that if he broke up the

list of elements into groups of seven, and the eighth in a new row,
the first element in each of the groups had a difference of 7.
Newlands named this The Law of Octaves. Because noble gases
like neon, argon and helium werent discovered until later, there
was only a periodicity of 7 and not 8 in Newlandss table.

1880

1894 William Ramsay Ramsay discovered five new

elements which were the noble gases; helium, neon, argon,
krypton, and xenon. He realized the five elements
represented a completely new group in the Periodic Table.
Ramsay provided understanding of the electric structure of
atoms and the way the electrons bind the atoms together
into molecules.

1869 Dmitri Mendeleev Mendeleev discovered

the Periodic Table when he attempted to sort the
elements in February 1869. He wrote the properties
of the elements on cards and arranged them until he
realized that by arranging the elements in order of
increasing atomic weight, certain types of elements
recurrently occurred. The table started off in
horizontal rows but Mendeleev soon changed it to
vertical rows. Mendeleev moved all the elements he
thought were in the wrong place due to the atomic
weight to the correct order with his discovered
pattern. Mendeleevs best move was leaving extra
gaps for unidentified elements and his table is the
well-known table used today.

1890

1900

1910

1914 Henry Moseley Moseley determined the atomic number

of each element by firing a newly developed X-Ray gun at samples
of elements. He measured the wavelength of X-rays given and used
his results to calculate the frequency. When Moseley figured the
square root of a frequency and plotted it against the atomic
number, the graph would come out in a straight line.

1920