Timeline of hydrogen technologies

Timeline of hydrogen technologies — A timeline of the history of hydrogen technology.

Timeline

17th century

• 1625 - First description of hydrogen by Johann Baptista van Helmont. First to use the word "gas".
• 1650 - Turquet de Mayerne obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on iron a gas or "inflammable air".
• 1662 - Boyle's law (gas law relating pressure and volume)
• 1670 - Robert Boyle produced hydrogen by reacting metals with acid.
• 1672 - "New Experiments touching the Relation between Flame and Air" by Robert Boyle.
• 1679 - Denis Papin - safety valve

18th century

• 1700 - Nicolas Lemery showed that the gas produced in the sulfuric acid/iron reaction was explosive in air
• 1755 - Joseph Black confirmed that different gases exist. / Latent heat
• 1766 - Henry Cavendish published in "On Factitious Airs" a description of "dephlogisticated air" by reacting zinc metal with hydrochloric acid and isolated a gas 7 to 11 times lighter than air.
• 1774 - Joseph Priestley isolated and categorized oxygen.
• 1780 - Felice Fontana discovers the water gas shift reaction
• 1783 - Antoine Lavoisier gave hydrogen its name (Gk: hydro = water, genes = born of)
• 1783 - Jacques Charles made the first flight with his hydrogen balloon "La Charlière".
• 1783 - Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre Laplace measured the heat of combustion of hydrogen using an ice calorimeter.
• 1784 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard, attempted a dirigible hydrogen balloon, but it would not steer.
• 1784 - The invention of the Lavoisier Meusnier iron-steam process, generating hydrogen by passing water vapor over a bed of red-hot iron at 600 °C.
• 1785 - Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier built the hybrid Rozière balloon.
• 1787 - Charles's law (gas law, relating volume and temperature)
• 1789 - Jan Rudolph Deiman and Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk using an electrostatic machine and a Leyden jar for the first electrolysis of water.

19th century

• 1800 - William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle decomposed water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis with a voltaic pile.
• 1800 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter duplicated the experiment with a rearranged set of electrodes to collect the two gases separately.
• 1801 - Humphry Davy discovers the concept of the Fuel Cell.
• 1806 - François Isaac de Rivaz built the de Rivaz engine, the first internal combustion engine powered by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen.
• 1809 - Thomas Forster observed with a theodolite the drift of small free pilot balloons filled with "inflammable gas"
• 1809 - Gay-Lussac's law (gas law, relating temperature and pressure)
• 1811 - Amedeo Avogadro - Avogadro's law a gas law
• 1819 - Edward Daniel Clarke invented the hydrogen gas blowpipe.
• 1820 - W. Cecil wrote a letter "On the application of hydrogen gas to produce a moving power in machinery"
• 1823 - Goldsworthy Gurney demonstrated limelight.
• 1823 - Döbereiner's Lamp a lighter invented by Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner.
• 1823 - Goldsworthy Gurney devised an oxy-hydrogen blowpipe.
• 1824 - Michael Faraday invented the rubber balloon.
• 1826 - Thomas Drummond built the Drummond Light.
• 1826 - Samuel Brown tested his internal combustion engine by using it to propel a vehicle up Shooter's Hill
• 1834 - Michael Faraday published Faraday's laws of electrolysis.
• 1834 - Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron - Ideal gas law
• 1836 - John Frederic Daniell invented a primary cell in which hydrogen was eliminated in the generation of the electricity.
• 1839 - Christian Friedrich Schönbein published the principle of the fuel cell in the "Philosophical Magazine".
• 1839 - William Robert Grove developed the Grove cell.
• 1842 - William Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell (which he called the gas voltaic battery)
• 1849 - Eugene Bourdon - Bourdon gauge (manometer)
• 1863 - Etienne Lenoir made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont with the 1-cylinder, 2-stroke Hippomobile.
• 1866 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann invents the Hofmann voltameter for the electrolysis of water.
• 1873 - Thaddeus S. C. Lowe - Water gas, the process used the water gas shift reaction.
• 1874 - Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island, "water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen of which it is constituted will be used"
• 1884 - Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs launch the airship La France.
• 1885 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski published hydrogen's critical temperature as 33 K; critical pressure, 13.3 atmospheres; and boiling point, 23 K.
• 1889 - Ludwig Mond and Carl Langer coined the name fuel cell and tried to build one running on air and Mond gas.
• 1893 - Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald experimentally determined the interconnected roles of the various components of the fuel cell.
• 1895 - Hydrolysis
• 1896 - Jackson D.D. and Ellms J.W., hydrogen production by microalgae (Anabaena)
• 1896 - Leon Teisserenc de Bort carries out experiments with high flying instrumental weather balloons.
• 1897 - Paul Sabatier facilitated the use of hydrogenation with the discovery of the Sabatier reaction.
• 1898 - James Dewar liquefied hydrogen by using regenerative cooling and his invention, the vacuum flask at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.
• 1899 - James Dewar collected solid hydrogen for the first time.

20th century

• 1900 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin launched the first hydrogen-filled Zeppelin LZ1 airship.
• 1901 - Wilhelm Normann introduced the hydrogenation of fats.
• 1903 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii published "The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices"
• 1907 - Lane hydrogen producer
• 1909 - Count Ferdinand Adolf August von Zeppelin made the first long distance flight with the Zeppelin LZ5.
• 1909 - Linde-Frank-Caro process
• 1910 - The first Zeppelin passenger flight with the Zeppelin LZ7.
• 1910 - Fritz Haber patented the Haber process.
• 1912 - The first scheduled international Zeppelin passenger flights with the Zeppelin LZ13.
• 1913 - Niels Bohr explains the Rydberg formula for the spectrum of hydrogen by imposing a quantization condition on classical orbits of the electron in hydrogen
• 1919 - The first Atlantic crossing by airship with the Beardmore HMA R34.
• 1920 - Hydrocracking, a plant for the commercial hydrogenation of brown coal is commissioned at Leuna in Germany.
• 1923 - Steam reforming, the first synthetic methanol is produced by BASF in Leuna
• 1923 - J. B. S. Haldane envisioned in Daedalus; or, Science and the Future "great power stations where during windy weather the surplus power will be used for the electrolytic decomposition of water into oxygen and hydrogen."
• 1926 - Wolfgang Pauli and Erwin Schrödinger show that the Rydberg formula for the spectrum of hydrogen follows from the new quantum mechanics
• 1926 - Partial oxidation, Vandeveer and Parr at the University of Illinois used oxygen in the place of air for the production of syngas.
• 1926 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood described the phenomenon of chain reaction.
• 1926 - Umberto Nobile made the first flight over the north pole with the hydrogen airship Norge
• 1929 - Paul Harteck and Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer achieve the first synthesis of pure parahydrogen.
• 1930 - Rudolf Erren - Erren engine - GB patent GB364180 - Improvements in and relating to internal combustion engines using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen as fuel
• 1935 - Eugene Wigner and H.B. Huntington predicted metallic hydrogen.
• 1937 - The Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg was destroyed by fire.
• 1937 - The Heinkel HeS 1 experimental gaseous hydrogen fueled centrifugal jet engine is tested at Hirth in March- the first working jet engine
• 1937 - The first hydrogen-cooled turbogenerator went into service at Dayton, Ohio.
• 1938 - The first 240 km hydrogen pipeline Rhine-Ruhr.
• 1938 - Igor Sikorsky from Sikorsky Aircraft proposed liquid hydrogen as a fuel.
• 1939 - Rudolf Erren - Erren engine - US patent 2,183,674 - Internal combustion engine using hydrogen as fuel
• 1939 - Hans Gaffron discovered that algae can switch between producing oxygen and hydrogen.
• 1941 - The first mass application of hydrogen in internal combustion engines: Russian lieutenant Boris Shelishch in the besieged Leningrad has converted some hundreds cars "GAZ-AA" which served posts of barrage balloons of air defense.
• 1943 - Liquid hydrogen is tested as rocket fuel at Ohio State University.
• 1943 - Arne Zetterström describes hydrox
• 1947 - Willis Lamb and Robert Retherford measure the small energy shift (the Lamb shift) between the 2s1/2 and 2p1/2 levels of hydrogen, providing a great stimulus to the development of quantum electrodynamics
• 1949 - Hydrodesulfurization (Catalytic reforming is commercialized under the name Platforming process)
• 1951 - Underground hydrogen storage
• 1952 - Ivy Mike, the first successful test of a nuclear explosive based on hydrogen (actually, deuterium) fusion
• 1952 - Hydrogen maser
• 1952 - Non-Refrigerated transport Dewar
• 1955 - W. Thomas Grubb modified the fuel cell design by using a sulphonated polystyrene ion-exchange membrane as the electrolyte.
• 1957 - Pratt & Whitney's model 304 jet engine using liquid hydrogen as fuel tested for the first time as part of the Lockheed CL-400 Suntan project.
• 1957 - The specifications for the U-2 a double axle liquid hydrogen semi-trailer were issued.
• 1958 - Leonard Niedrach devised a way of depositing platinum onto the membrane, this became known as the Grubb-Niedrach fuel cell
• 1958 - Allis-Chalmers demonstrated the D 12, the first 15 kW fuel cell tractor.
• 1959 - Francis Thomas Bacon built the Bacon Cell, the first practical 5 kW hydrogen-air fuel cell to power a welding machine.
• 1960 - Allis-Chalmers builds the first fuel cell forklift
• 1961 - RL-10 liquid hydrogen fuelled rocket engine first flight
• 1964 - Allis-Chalmers built a 750-watt fuel cell to power a one-man underwater research vessel.
• 1965 - The first commercial use of a fuel cell in Project Gemini.
• 1965 - Allis-Chalmers builds the first fuel cell golf carts.
• 1966 - General Motors presents Electrovan, the world's first fuel cell automobile.
• 1966 - Slush hydrogen
• 1966 - J-2 (rocket engine) liquid hydrogen rocket engine flies
• 1967 - Akira Fujishima discovers the Honda-Fujishima effect which is used for photocatalysis in the photoelectrochemical cell.
• 1967 - Hydride compressor
• 1970 - Nickel hydrogen battery
• 1970 - John Bockris or Lawrence W. Jones coined the term hydrogen economy
• 1973 - The 30 km hydrogen pipeline in Isbergues
• 1973 - Linear compressor
• 1975 - John Bockris - Energy The Solar-Hydrogen Alternative - ISBN 0-470-08429-4
• 1979 - HM7B rocket engine
• 1981 - Space Shuttle Main Engine first flight
• 1990 - The first solar-powered hydrogen production plant Solar-Wasserstoff-Bayern became operational.
• 1996 - Vulcain rocket engine
• 1997 - Anastasios Melis discovered that the deprivation of sulfur will cause algae to switch from producing oxygen to producing hydrogen
• 1998 - Type 212 submarine
• 1999 - Hydrogen pinch

21st century

• 2000 - Peter Toennies demonstrates superfluidity of hydrogen at 0.15 K
• 2001 - The first type IV hydrogen tanks for compressed hydrogen at 700 bar (10000 PSI) were demonstrated.
• 2002 - Type 214 submarine
• 2002 - The first hydrail locomotive was demonstrated in Val-d'Or, Quebec.
• 2004 - DeepC is an autonomous underwater vehicle propelled by an electric motor powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.
• 2005 - Ionic liquid piston compressor
• 2013 - The first commercial 2 megawatt power to gas installation in Falkenhagen comes online for 360 cubic meters of hydrogen per hour hydrogen storage into the natural gas grid.
• 2014 - The Japanese fuel cell micro combined heat and power (mCHP) ENE FARM project passes 100.000 sold systems.

See also

• Timeline of low-temperature technology
• List of timelines