Titanium was discovered by Reverend William Gregor, from England, in 1791. The name Titanium comes from Titans, the sons of the Earth Goddess in Greek mythology. Several years later, the element was rediscovered by a German chemist, Klaproth, who found it in the ore rutile. The pure elemental metal was not made until 1901 by Mattew A. Hunter. He headted TiCl4 together with sodium in a steel bomb at 700-800°C.