 1754 - Joseph-Louis Proust born: law of definite proportions (Proust's law); isolated grape sugar (glucose); distinguished oxides from hydroxides. |
| 1871 - David O. Saylor receives US Patent #119,413 for portland cement, a mixture of magnesium clay with limestone clay. |
| 1876 - Henkel founded. |
| 1886 - Archibald V. Hill born: oxygen consumption in muscular action; Nobel prize (Medicine), 1922. |
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