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Description: | Charles Parsons tried to make artificial diamonds for the first time in 1886. He continued his experiments intermittently for many years. He subjected carbon rods to extremely high pressures and temperatures. Under certain conditions hard particles were formed, which did indeed resemble diamonds. They did not, however, pass a final test, which would have proved them genuine. After many years of experimenting Parsons himself admitted that he had not succeeded. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | inventors and innovators people | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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