Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The year 1900 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Aeronautics. July 2 ...
This page was last edited on 21 January 2023, at 23:16 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
This page was last edited on 29 February 2020, at 08:08 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. [453] 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.
The 1900s (pronounced "nineteen-hundreds") was a decade that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time. The term "nineteen-hundreds" is sometimes also used to mean the entire century from January 1, 1900, to December 31, 1999 (the years beginning with "19").
May 27 – The Edison Storage Battery Company is founded in New Jersey.; June 17 – Europium is discovered by Eugène-Anatole Demarçay.; Emil Fischer, in collaboration with Ernest Fourneau, synthesizes the dipeptide, glycylglycine, and also publishes his work on the hydrolysis of casein.
The Scientific Revolution occurs in Europe around this period, greatly accelerating the progress of science and contributing to the rationalization of the natural sciences. 16th century: Gerolamo Cardano solves the general cubic equation (by reducing them to the case with zero quadratic term).
The temporalization of time: basic tendencies in modern debate on time in philosophy and science. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-1290-0. Segrè, Emilio (1993). A mind always in motion: the autobiography of Emilio Segrè. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07627-3. Van Name, F. W. (1962). "The Golden Age of Physics".