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The year 1892 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Chemistry
- William Ramsay discovers argon.
- approx. date - James Dewar invents the Dewar flask.[1]
Conservation
- May 28 - Scottish American naturalist John Muir founds the environmental organization the Sierra Club in San Francisco, aided by a group of professors from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.
Mathematics
- Georg Cantor shows there are different kinds of infinity and studies transfinite numbers.
- Gino Fano discovers the Fano plane.[2]
Medicine
- July - Waldemar Haffkine demonstrates the first anti-cholera vaccine.
- First edition of William Osler's textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine is published in Edinburgh while the author is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. It remains internationally significant in medical education for forty years.[3]
Technology
- February 23 - Rudolf Diesel obtains a patent[4] for a compression-ignition engine.
- François Hennebique patents his system of reinforced concrete.[5]
Awards
Births
- March 30 - Stefan Banach (died 1945), Polish mathematician.
- April 14 - Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (died 1979), German astronomer.
- August 15 - Louis-Victor de Broglie (died 1987), French winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
- October 26 - André Chapelon (died 1978), French steam locomotive designer.
- November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane (died 1964), British geneticist.
- December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung (died 1929), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.
Deaths
- January 2 - George Biddell Airy (born 1801), astronomer.
- January 21 - John Couch Adams (born 1819), mathematician.
- April 2 - Emin Pasha (born 1840), explorer.
- May 5 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann (born 1818), chemist
- June 27 - Carl Schorlemmer (born 1834), organic chemist.
- December 6 - Werner von Siemens (born 1816), electrical engineer.
- December 18 - Richard Owen (born 1804), anatomist and paleontologist.
References
- ^ James, Frank. "Dewar, James". Chemistry Explained. Advameg Inc. Archived from the original on 15 April 2008. http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Co-Di/Dewar-James.html. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Golden, Richard (2004). A history of William Osler’s 'The Principles and Practice of Medicine'. Osler Library studies in the history of medicine, no. 8. Montreal: McGill University. ISBN 0-7717-0615-4.
- ^ RP 67207 Arbeitsverfahren und Ausführungsart für Verbrennungsmaschinen.
- ^ McBeth, Douglas (1998). "Francois Hennebique (1842–1921) – Reinforced concrete pioneer". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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