1882 in science

none 1882 science 1882 The year 1882 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy September – Great Comet of 1882 sighted.Plummer William Edward The great comet of September 1882 The Observatory 12 140–142 1889Obs....12..140P March 1889 December 6 – Transit of Venus, 1882. thumb|200px|right|Great Comet as seen from Cape Town by David Gill Biology March 24 – Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Koch, Robert (1882-03-24). "Die Ätiologie der Tuberkulose". Presented to Physiologische Gesellschaft zu Berlin. Élie Metchnikoff discovers phagocytosis.Alexander Petrunkevitch Russia's Contribution to Science Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 23 1920 239 Chemistry Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detects helium on Earth for the first time through its D3 spectral line when he analyzes the lava of Mount Vesuvius.Recent Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Stewart Alfred Walter 201 https://books.google.com/books?id=pIqhPFfDMXwC&pg=PA201 BiblioBazaar, LLC 2008 978-0-554-80513-9 Earth sciences Clarence Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District is published by the United States Geological Survey. Mathematics June – German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes proof that π is a transcendental number and that squaring the circle is consequently impossible.Lindemann F. Über die Zahl π Mathematische Annalen 20 1882 213–225 10.1007/BF01446522 https://zenodo.org/record/1428234Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 21, 81 December – Swedish mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler establishes the journal Acta Mathematica. Felix Klein first describes the Klein bottle. Medicine March 28 – Paul Beiersdorf patents an adhesive bandage in Germany, the foundation of the Beiersdorf company. Vladimir Bekhterev publishes Provodiashchie puti mozga ("The Conduction Paths in the Brain and Spinal Cord"), beginning to note the role of the hippocampus in memory. Technology January 12 – Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.https://books.google.com/books?id=bfVKt7UzjnEC&pg=PA89 New Scientist London The electricity of Holborn Jack Harris 1982-01-14 By March – Étienne-Jules Marey invents a chronophotographic gun capable of photographing 12 consecutive frames per second on the same plate. April 29 – Werner von Siemens demonstrates his Electromote, the first form of trolleybus, in Berlin. June 6 – Henry W. Seeley patents the electric clothes iron in the United States.Patent no. 259,054. Household Amenities and Appliances: Timeline of Their Arrival http://www.partselect.ca/resources/Appliances-Timeline-Of-Their-Arrival.aspx PartSelect 2012-01-25 September 4 – Thomas Edison starts the United States' first commercial electrical power plant, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. English mechanical engineer James Atkinson invents his "Differential Engine". American electrical engineer Schuyler Wheeler produces an electric fan. Alfred P. Southwick publishes his proposals for use of the electric chair as an execution method in the United States. Nikola Tesla claims this is when he conceives the rotating magnetic field principle, which he later uses to invent his induction motor.Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930 JHU Press Baltimore, MD 117 https://books.google.com/books?id=g07Q9M4agp4C&pg=PA117 978-0-8018-4614-4 1993 2015-12-13 2024-03-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20240323123125/https://books.google.com/books?id=g07Q9M4agp4C&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false live Thomas Parke Hugheshttps://books.google.com/books?id=1AsFdUxOwu8C&pg=PA204 Robert Bud Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia 204 2013-03-18 978-0-8153-1561-2 1998 Taylor & Francis 2024-03-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20240323123051/https://books.google.com/books?id=1AsFdUxOwu8C&pg=PA204#v=onepage&q&f=false live Events First International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins. The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, is founded in the United Kingdom. Awards Copley Medal: Arthur CayleyCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 23 July 2020 en Wollaston Medal for Geology: Franz Ritter von Hauer Births March 14 – Wacław Sierpiński (died 1969), Polish mathematician. March 23 – Emmy Noether (died 1935), German mathematician. March 30 – Melanie Klein (died 1960), Viennese-born psychoanalyst. April 27 – Harry Allan (died 1957), New Zealand botanist. June 17 – Harold Gillies (died 1960), New Zealand-born plastic surgeon. July 12 – Traian Lalescu (died 1929), Romanian mathematician. July 21 – Herbert E. Ives (died 1953), American optical engineer. September 30 – Hans Geiger (died 1945), German inventor of the Geiger counter. October 5 – Robert Goddard (died 1945), American rocket scientist. October 26 – Marietta Pallis (died 1963), Indian-born Graeco-British ecologist. November 18 – Frances Gertrude McGill (died 1959), pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist. December 11 – Max Born (died 1970), German physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954. December 28 – Arthur Eddington (died 1944), English astrophysicist. Israel Aharoni (died 1946), Belarusian-born Jewish zoologist. Deaths January 11 – Theodor Schwann (born 1810), German physiologist. April 19 – Charles Darwin (born 1809), English naturalist and geologist. August 24 – John Dillwyn Llewelyn (born 1810), Welsh botanist and photographer. September 23 – Friedrich Wöhler (born 1800), German chemist. October 27 – Christian Heinrich von Nagel (born 1803), German geometer. November 20 – Henry Draper (born 1837), doctor, American astronomer. December 24 Johann Benedict Listing (born 1808), German mathematician. Charles Vincent Walker (born 1812), English telegraph engineer. References Category:19th century in science Category:1880s in science