Overview of the events of 1886 in science
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The year 1886 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Chemistry
Exploration
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Metallurgy
Physics
Technology
- July 3 – Ottmar Mergenthaler's Linotype machine is introduced at the New-York Tribune.
- August 13 – Romanian inventor Alexandru Ciurcu and French journalist Just Buisson [fr] demonstrate a reaction engine, used to power a boat. On December 16 a second engine explodes, killing Buisson.
- September 21 – William Stanley, Jr. patents the induction coil in the United States, the first practical alternating current transformer device.
- October 31 – Opening of Dom Luís Bridge, Porto, a two-hinged double-deck arch bridge across the Douro River in Portugal designed by Téophile Seyrig. Its main span of 172 metres (564 ft) will remain the world's longest in iron.
- December 28 – Josephine Cochrane patents the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher in the United States.
- Gottlieb Daimler produces the first motorboat, Neckar, in Germany.[10]
- The Lebel Model 1886 rifle is developed in France, the first military firearm to use smokeless powder ammunition.
- Auguste Mustel invents the celesta.
- Herbert Akroyd Stuart produces his first prototype heavy oil engines, in England.[11]
- Schuyler Wheeler produces the first electric fan, in the United States.[12]
Awards
Births
- January 28 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (died 1976)
- March 7 – G. I. Taylor, English physicist (died 1975)
- March 8 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1972)
- April 5 – Frederick Lindemann, German-born British physicist (died 1957)
- May 22 – Hermann Stieve, German anatomist and histologist (died 1952)
- June 7 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aeronautical engineer (died 1972)
- June 18 – Tsuruko Haraguchi, born Tsuru Arai, Japanese psychologist (died 1915)
- July 6 – Ronald Hatton, English pomologist (died 1965)
- July 19 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (died 1957)
- July 30 – Muthulakshmi Reddi, Indian physician and social reformer (died 1968)
- September 26 – Archibald Hill, English physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1977)
- November 20 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian ethologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1982)
- December 9 – Clarence Birdseye, American founder of the modern frozen food industry (died 1956)
Deaths
- February 25 – Lady Katherine Sophia Kane, Irish botanist (born 1811)
- March 15 – Anastasie Fătu, Moldavian and Romanian physician and naturalist (born 1816)
- June 7 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor (born 1812)
- July 1 – Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German mineralogist and geologist (born 1806)
- August 17 – Aleksandr Butlerov, Russian chemist (born 1828)
- November 14 – Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, French mineralogist and geologist (born 1820).
- November 25 – Richard Maack, Russian naturalist, geographer and anthropologist (born 1825)
- September 18 – Sampson Gamgee, English surgeon (born 1828).
- December 26 – Theodor von Oppolzer, Austrian astronomer (born 1841)
References
- ^ Moissan, H. (1886). "Action d'un courant électrique sur l'acide fluorhydrique anhydre". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. 102: 1543–1544.
- ^ Moissan, H. (1886). "Sur la décomposition de l'acide fluorhydrique par un courant électrique". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. 103: 202.
- ^ Choice and Chance: An Elementary Treatise on Permutations, Combinations, and Probability. 1886 edn.
- ^ "Sur une forme particulière d'atrophie musculaire progressive, souvent familiale débutant par les pieds et les jambes et atteignant plus tard les mains". Revue médicale. 6: 97–138. 1886.
- ^ The Peroneal Type of Progressive Muscular Atrophy. Lewis. 1886.
- ^ Enersen, Ole Daniel. "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease". Whonamedit?. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
- ^ Hunt, T. J.; Thienhaus, O.; Ellwood, A. (July 2008). "The mirror lies: Body dysmorphic disorder". American Family Physician. 78 (2): 217–22. PMID 18697504.
- ^ Carroll, Deirdre H.; Scahill, Larry; Phillips, Katharine A. (April 2002). "Current concepts in body dysmorphic disorder". Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. 16 (2): 72–79. doi:10.1053/apnu.2002.32109. PMID 11925574.
- ^ Pepper, Sarah (October 1992). "Allinson's Staff of Life – Health Without Medicine in the 1890s". History Today. 42 (10): 30–35. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
- ^ Patent DRP 39-367.
- ^ "The Akroyd Oil Engine". Ray Hooley's – Ruston-Hornsby – Engine Pages. Archived from the original on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
- ^ "Schuyler Wheeler". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.