The Evolution of Hydroponics Through Research
As with any scientific field, there will be many scientists who helped contribute to the development of its study. This tab will give you some brief information on some of the scientists who worked in the field of hydroponics and what they did to help its growth.
Sir Francis Bacon was born in York House, London on January 22, 1561 and died on April 9, 1626 (he was 65 years old when he died). He experimented and documented many of his studies in soilless gardening. He didn't just study soilless gardening. He studied many other topics also. Sir Francis Bacon conducted very unusual experiments. For example, he experimented to see how long he could preserve the flesh of a chicken, by stuffing the body with snow.
Around the eighteenth century, the year 1699 to be more exact, a new scientist named John Woodward entered the field of hydroponics. He had started his research in the field of agriculture and led him into hydroponics. Cool fact is that Woodward actually conducted the first recorded experiment on plant nutrients. He had a main question that drove his research. Do plants draw more nourishment from soil or from water? The way he conducted his experiment was by adding small amounts of soil into the water and seeing how that affected the plant, which was Spearmint. He found out that soil actually improved the health of the plant. He concluded that it was the soil that gave the plant its nourishment, which later came to be known as the nutrients that made the difference, not the actual soil. These experiments led on to many other experiments, and they also helped discover the origin of plants nutrients. This allowed for the advancement of hydroponics and the science behind it. It was this experiment that that made us realize that hydroponics isn't the best style of growing, because of the lack of soil, but a very good alternative.
Lastly, I will talk about two German scientists, Wilhelm Knop and Julius von Sachs. Their involvement in hydroponics set new scientific standards. These two men started their own research on growing plants without soil from 1859-1865. They developed systems that grew plants in nutrient-rich solutions. The writings these men documented about their results set the standards for laboratory procedures for many of the years that were to follow.
As with any scientific field, there will be many scientists who helped contribute to the development of its study. This tab will give you some brief information on some of the scientists who worked in the field of hydroponics and what they did to help its growth.
Sir Francis Bacon was born in York House, London on January 22, 1561 and died on April 9, 1626 (he was 65 years old when he died). He experimented and documented many of his studies in soilless gardening. He didn't just study soilless gardening. He studied many other topics also. Sir Francis Bacon conducted very unusual experiments. For example, he experimented to see how long he could preserve the flesh of a chicken, by stuffing the body with snow.
Around the eighteenth century, the year 1699 to be more exact, a new scientist named John Woodward entered the field of hydroponics. He had started his research in the field of agriculture and led him into hydroponics. Cool fact is that Woodward actually conducted the first recorded experiment on plant nutrients. He had a main question that drove his research. Do plants draw more nourishment from soil or from water? The way he conducted his experiment was by adding small amounts of soil into the water and seeing how that affected the plant, which was Spearmint. He found out that soil actually improved the health of the plant. He concluded that it was the soil that gave the plant its nourishment, which later came to be known as the nutrients that made the difference, not the actual soil. These experiments led on to many other experiments, and they also helped discover the origin of plants nutrients. This allowed for the advancement of hydroponics and the science behind it. It was this experiment that that made us realize that hydroponics isn't the best style of growing, because of the lack of soil, but a very good alternative.
Lastly, I will talk about two German scientists, Wilhelm Knop and Julius von Sachs. Their involvement in hydroponics set new scientific standards. These two men started their own research on growing plants without soil from 1859-1865. They developed systems that grew plants in nutrient-rich solutions. The writings these men documented about their results set the standards for laboratory procedures for many of the years that were to follow.