Feb. 7, 1863: Early Stab at Organizing Elements

1863: British chemist John Newlands organizes the known elements, listing them in a table determined by atomic weight, according to what he provisionally calls his “law of octaves.” It is not an instant hit.
Newlands noticed, as he cataloged the elements sequentially based on Stanislao Cannizzaro’s atomic-weight system, that elements with similar properties tended to appear [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/02/0207newlands-organizes-elements-octaves/

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