Who Made It?

Dmitri Mendeleyev presented his periodic table of elements at the Russian Chemical society on March 6, 1869. His table was based on increasing atomic weight. It was not, however, the first attempt at organizing the elements. In 1864, Lothar Meyer published a table with the placement of 28 elements.

The DeLorean has been immortalized as the time machine in the “Back to the Future” films, but its market performance was disastrous. While it had a futuristic design, the poor build quality and high price caused it to be roundly rejected by the public.

In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.