1824 Fact Sheet

Database: Great Inventions by Year and Country

Record Name Year Country Region Source Inventor Name
Braille 1824 France Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 Louis Braille
Portland Cement 1824 United Kingdom Europe Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 Joseph Aspdin

Database: Year and Discoverer of Chemical Elements

Record Name Element Year Discovered Discovered By Source
Silicon Silicon 1824 Jons Jacob Berzelius 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
Silicon Si 14 14 1410 2355 2.33 1824 28.0855 27.69

Database: List of Secret Societies at Universities

Record Name Year Established University Member Limit Active or Honorary Name Source
Franklin Society (Brown University) 1824 Brown University Not Available Active Franklin Society Wikipedia

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