- 1887 in science
The year 1887 in
science andtechnology involved many significant events, listed below.Events
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March 3 -Helen Keller meets her miracle worker, Anne Sullivan, who must teach language to the deaf and blind Keller, unable to speak.
*March 4 -Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile.
*March 8 - Everett Horton ofConnecticut patented afishing rod of telescoping steel tubes.
*March 13 -Chester Greenwood patentsearmuff s.
*June 8 -Herman Hollerith receives a patent for hispunch card calculator.
*July 26 - Inlinguistics ,L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr.Esperanto 's International Language".
* August -Anna Connelly patents thefire escape .
* August - In medicine, the U.S.National Institutes of Health is founded at the Marine Hospital,Staten Island, NY , as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
* InHawaii , theMauna Loa volcano eruptions subsided, having begun in 1843. During the 1887 eruption, about 2 1/2 million tons (2.3 million metric tons) of lava per hour poured out, covering an area of 29 km².
*Heinrich Hertz discoverselectromagnetism .
* TheMichelson-Morley experiment is performed, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.
*Adolf Eugen Fick invents thecontact lens , made of a type of brown glass.
* Thecomptometer is patented byDorr Eugene Felt .
* In medicine, the Britishnurse s association is organized.
* Von Oppolzer published a catalog of predicted eclipses.
* TheYellow River floods inChina : 900,000 dead.
* In technology,Thomas Stevens (cyclist) becomes the first man tobicycle around the world.Awards
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Copley Medal :Joseph Dalton Hooker
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:John Whitaker Hulke Births
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June 22 -Julian Huxley (d. 1975), Britishbiologist andauthor .
*August 18 -Erwin Schrödinger (d. 1961),physicist .Deaths
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January 22 -Joseph Whitworth (b. 1803), Englishmechanical engineer .
*August 15 -Julius von Haast (b. 1824), Germangeologist .
*August 19 -Spencer Fullerton Baird (b. 1823),ornithologist andichthyologist .
*August 19 -Alvan Clark (b. 1804), telescope manufacturer.
*October 17 -Gustav Kirchhoff (b. 1824),physicist .
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