Atom Time Server

Atom Time Server

Atom Time Server

Although the concept of atoms had been around since the time of Democritus in the 5th century B.C., by the time the 19th century had come around, the idea still hadn’t caught on. This began to change, however, with the impressively refined theories of John Dalton in the first decade of the 1800’s.

The farfetched concept of a universe made up of an uncountable number of tiny particles, all bound together by some unknown force to create all matter, however, was still rather difficult for most reputable scientists to believe. While Dalton’s theory was clever, and certainly very interesting from the perspective of chemistry, it had yet to be experimentally verified.

Experimental Evidence of Atoms

This next major step – experimental examination of Dalton’s atomic theory – came in 1827, by way of a Botanist, of all people – Mr. Robert Brown of Scotland.