Date | Landmark | Source |
412 BC | Antifouling paint | Unknown |
1675 | Mechanical origin of corrosiveness and ‘corrodibility’ | Boyle |
1763 | “Bimetallic corrosion” | HMS Alarm report |
1788 | Water becomes alkaline during corrosion of iron | Austin |
1791 | Copper-iron electrolytic galvanic coupling | Galvani |
1819 | Insight into electrochemical nature of corrosion | Thenard |
1824 |
Cathodic protection of copper sheathing by Zn or Fe | Sir Humphry Davy |
1830 | Microstructural aspect of corrosion (Zn) | De la Rive |
1834-40 | Relations between chemical action and generation of electric currents | Faraday |
1836 | Passivity of iron | Faraday, Schoenbein |
1904 | Hydrogen overvoltage as a function of current | Tafel |
1905 | Carbonic and other acids are not essential for the corrosion of iron | Dunstan, Jowett, Goulding, Tilden |
1907 | Oxygen action as cathodic stimulator | Walker, Cederholm |
1908-10 | Compilation of corrosion rates in different media | Heyn, Bauer |
1910 | Inhibitive paint | Cushman, Gardner |
1913 | Study of high temperature oxidation kinetics of tungsten | Langmuir |
1916 | Differential aeration currents | Aston |
1920-3 | 'season-cracking' of brass = intergranular corrosion | Moore, Beckinsale |
1923 | High temperature formation of oxides | Pilling, Bedworth |
1924 | Galvanic corrosion | Whitman, Russell |
1930-31 | Subscaling or “internal corrosion” | Smith |
1933 | Probabilistic nature of corrosion | Evans |
1931-9 | Quantitative and electrochemical nature of corrosion | Evans |
1938 | Anodic and cathodic inhibitors | Chyzewski, Evans |
1938 | E-pH thermodynamic diagrams | Pourbaix |
1950 | Self-accelerating (autocatalytic) nature of localized corrosion | Uhlig |
1956 | Tafel extrapolation for measurement of kinetic parameters | Stern, Geary |
1968 | Electrochemical noise signature of corrosion | Iverson |
1970 | Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) | Epelboin |
