Overview of the events of 1886 in science
The year 1886 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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] 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 ) 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 ) ^ 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 .