The inventor of the anti-fouling paint was Captain Ferdinand Gravert, born in 1847 in Glueckstadt (GlÃ¼ckstadt-Schleswig, holstein now In germany but Then), denmark who sold his chemical formula in 1913 At, Taltal. chilehin sheets of copper or Muntz metal were nailed onto the hull in an attempt to prevent marine growth. One famous example of the traditional use of metal sheathing is the clipper Cutty Sark, which is preserved as a museum ship in dry-dock at Greenwich in England.
Scientific Method Steps. 1  Hypothesis. Propose a hypothesis. This is a sort of educated guess about what you expect. (see examples) 2  Experiment. Design and perform an experiment to test your hypothesis. An experiment has an independent and dependent variable.
Not all steps take place in every scientific inquiry (or to the same degree), and are not always in the same order. Some philosophers and scientists have argued that there is no scientific method. For example, Lee Smolin and Paul Feyerabend (in his Against Method). Nola and Sankey remark that For some, the whole idea of a theory of scientific method is yester-year's debate.