Tungsten has a long history, which can be traced back to its discovery during18th century. Peter was the first natural mineral to recognize the new element tungsten, which was originally called tungsten, explaining that its element symbol was chosen as "W". Swedish chemist Carl's discovery of scheelite, his research and his contribution.

184 1 year, a chemist named Robert made the first procedure to prepare tungsten trioxide and sodium tungstate. Shortly after his work was patented, he was regarded as the founder of systematic tungsten chemistry.