Invisible Energy
Invisible energy revealed: stone extracted from the depths of mines is responsible for one of the greatest scientific and technological revolutions in modern history
When you think about discoveries that transformed the course of history, what comes to mind? Wars, revolutionary inventions or social movements?
Few remember that, in the dark depths of a mine in Europe, a small mineral would be responsible for one of the greatest scientific and technological revolutions of modernity.
At the end of the 18th century, in 1789, German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth isolated, for the first time, a previously unknown metal from a mineral that seemed to be just another geological curiosity.