Overview of the events of 1889 in science
The year 1889 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Paleontology
Psychology
Technology
January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent in the United States for his electric tabulating machine .[ 8]
March 12 – Almon B. Strowger , an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas , files a patent in the United States for an automatic telephone exchange using the Strowger switch .[ 9]
May 6–October 31 – Exposition Universelle in Paris , with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch. At 300 m, the tower's height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. The Galerie des machines , designed by architect Ferdinand Dutert and engineer Victor Contamin , at 111 m, spans the longest interior space in the world at this time.
June 3 – The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon .
An early method of high-voltage direct current transmission as developed by Swiss engineer René Thury [ 10] is implemented commercially in Italy by the Acquedotto de Ferrari-Galliera company, transmitting 630 kW at 14 kV DC over a distance of 120 km.[ 11] [ 12]
Probable date – Car to the design of Siegfried Marcus completed in Vienna.
Awards
Births
January 17 – Ralph H. Fowler (died 1944 ), English physicist and astronomer .
March 21 – Frederick Osborn (died 1981 ), American philanthropist and eugenicist .
April 21 – Paul Karrer (died 1971 ), Swiss winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
May 18 – Thomas Midgley Jr. (died 1944), American chemist and inventor .
June 4 – Beno Gutenberg (died 1960 ), German -born seismologist .
June 23 – Verena Holmes (died 1964 ), English mechanical engineer and inventor.
July 18 – Axel Boëthius (died 1969 ), Swedish archeologist of Etruscan culture.
July 30 (O.S. July 17) – Vladimir K. Zworykin (died 1982 ), Russian -born pioneer of television technology.
August 1 – Walter Gerlach (died 1979 ), German physicist.
August 7 – Léon Brillouin (died 1969 ), French physicist.
August 11 – Ross T. McIntire (died 1960 ), American naval surgeon .
September 7 – Mary Barkas (died 1959 or 1961), New Zealand psychiatrist .
September 28 – Hugh Whistler (died 1943 ), English ornithologist of India.
November 20 – Edwin Hubble (died 1953 ), American astronomer.
November 24 – William Justin Kroll (died 1973 ), Luxembourgish metallurgist .
December 21 – Sewall Wright (died 1988 ), American geneticist .
December 29 – Vera Fedorovna Gaze (died 1954 ), Russian astronomer.
John Ryle (died 1950 ), English physician and epidemiologist .
Deaths
January 4 – Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (born 1804 ), English algologist.
February 8 – Roberto Duarte Silva (born 1837 ), Portuguese chemist.
March 8 – John Ericsson (born 1803 ), Swedish American mechanical engineer and inventor.
March 16 – Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (born 1821 ), German astronomer .
March 22 – Sophia Wilkens (born 1817 ), Swedish pioneer in the education of students with intellectual disability.
April 19 – Warren De La Rue (born 1815 ), British astronomical photographer.
June 28 – Maria Mitchell (born 1818 ), American astronomer.
July 30 – Miles Joseph Berkeley (born 1803 ), English botanist .
August 21 (O.S. August 9) – Nikolai Annenkov (born 1819 ), Russian botanist.
October 11 – James Joule (born 1818), English physicist .
October 18 – Antonio Meucci (born 1808 ), Italian American inventor.
References
^ Bulmer, M. G. (2003). Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Statistics . pp. 202–203.
^ von Mering, Joseph; Minkowski, Oskar (1889). "Diabetes mellitus nach Pankreasextirpation". Centralblatt für klinische Medicin . 10 (23). Leipzig: 393–394.
^ Vries, H. de (1889). Intracellulare Pangenese . Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. Translated in 1908 from German to English by C. Stuart Gager as Intracellular Pangenesis . Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1910.
^ IUPAC , Compendium of Chemical Terminology , 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book") (1997). Online corrected version: (2008) "Arrhenius equation ". doi :10.1351/goldbook.A00446
^ Delaney, John. "Evolution of the Map of Central, East & West Africa" . To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880 . Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2015-08-21 .
^ "Johns Hopkins Medicine: The Four Founding Professors" .
^ Müller-Lyer, F. C. (1889). "Optische Urteilstäuschungen" . Archiv für Physiologie: Supplement-band : 263–270 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
^ US patent 395782 , Herman Hollerith, "Art of compiling statistics", issued 1889-01-08
^ Hill, Roger B. (March 1953). "The Early Years of the Strowger System" . Bell Laboratories Record . 31 (3): 95–103. Archived from the original on 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2011-11-03 .
^ Beaty, Donald; et al. (1978). Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers (11th ed.). McGraw Hill.
^ "History of Electrical Systems and Cables" . 2012-01-23.
^ Black, R. M. (1983). The History of Electric Wires and Cables . London: Peter Perigrinus. pp. 94–96. ISBN 0-86341-001-4 .
^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 23 July 2020 .