Category: Titanium History

Titanium: History »

By Alan Hadley
Titanium was first discovered by clergyman William Gregor in 1791 who, basically didn’t know what it was until, in 1795, Austrian chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth identified it as a new element, gave it the number 22 and named it Titanium after the Greek Gods – The Titans. Even in those early days a [...]