John Wilkins has a short note linking to a research article on the invention of the periodic table.
There's also this nice animation of Tom Lehrer's song "The Elements":
The reason for the moderately large number of elements discovered since the original song is that the original was done in the early 1960s.
Bravo!
ReplyDeleteI always play the Song of the Elements in the second week of general chemistry lecture. I've been using this one
ReplyDeletehttp://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
but I think a switch is in order. Thanks