1807 Fact Sheet

Database: Great Inventions by Year and Country

Record Name Year Country Region Source Inventor Name
Steamboat 1807 United States North America Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 Robert Fulton

Database: Year and Discoverer of Chemical Elements

Record Name Element Year Discovered Discovered By Source
Potassium Potassium 1807 Sir Humphry Davy Jefferson Lab
Sodium Sodium 1807 Sir Humphry Davy Jefferson Lab

Database: Periodic Table of the Elements

Record Name Symbol Group Number Melting Point Boiling Point Density Year Discovered Atomic Weight % of Earth's Crust
Sodium Na 1 11 98 883 0.97 1807 22.9897 2.75
Potassium K 1 19 64 774 0.86 1807 39.0983 2.58

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