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The year 1926 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
Chemistry
- Waldo Semon and the B.F. Goodrich Company develop a method of plasticizing polyvinyl chloride, giving it commercial potential.
Earth sciences
- Vladimir Vernadsky popularises the concept of the biosphere in a book (in Russian) of this title.
Mathematics
- Otakar Borůvka publishes Borůvka's algorithm, introducing the greedy algorithm.[1][2][3]
Medicine
- First vaccine for Pertussis
Paleontology
- Gerhard Heilmann publishes The Origin of Birds (in English) on bird evolution.
Technology
- February - Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda publish the first description of the Yagi-Uda antenna.
- July
- Alan A. Griffith publishes An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, proposing an airfoil shape for turbine blades.[4][5]
- Carl Zeiss, Jena, open a planetarium housed in a geodesic dome designed by Walther Bauersfeld.[6]
- November 23 - The aerosol spray can is patented by Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical engineer.[7]
Awards
Births
- January 11 - Lev Demin (died 1998), cosmonaut.
- April 3 - Gus Grissom (died 1967), astronaut.
- October 2 - Michio Suzuki (died 1998), mathematician.
Deaths
- March 5 - Clément Ader (born 1841), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
- April 11 - Luther Burbank (born 1849), plant breeder.
- July 21 - Washington Roebling (born 1837), civil engineer.
- September 23 - Paul Kammerer (born 1880), Lamarckian biologist (suicide).
- October 7 - Emil Kraepelin (born 1856), psychiatrist.
- October 10 - Clara H. Hasse, botanist
- November 26 - John Moses Browning (born 1855), inventor.
References
- ^ Borůvka, Otakar (1926). "O jistém problému minimálním [About a certain minimal problem]" (in Czech, German summary). Práce mor. přírodověd. spol. v Brně III 3: 37–58.
- ^ Borůvka, Otakar (1926). "Příspěvek k řešení otázky ekonomické stavby elektrovodních sítí [Contribution to the solution of a problem of economical construction of electrical networks]" (in Czech). Elektronický Obzor 15: 153–4.
- ^ Nešetřil, Jaroslav; Milková, Eva; Nešetřilová, Helena (2001). "Otakar Borůvka on minimum spanning tree problem: translation of both the 1926 papers, comments, history". Discrete Mathematics 233 (1–3): 3–36. doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(00)00224-7. MR 1825599.
- ^ Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Report no. H 1111.
- ^ Rubbra, A. A. (1964). "Alan Arnold Griffith. 1893-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 10: 117–136. JSTOR 769315.
- ^ Photographs of the Zeiss Optical Company's first geodesic dome.
- ^ Bellis, Mary. "The History of Aerosol Spray Cans". About.com. http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/aerosol.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-27.
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