Overview of the events of 1910 in science
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The year 1910 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Cartography
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
- February 3 – The first pyloromyotomy, a surgery to correct the congenital narrowing (in infants) of the path between the stomach and the intestines (pyloric stenosis) is performed in Edinburgh by Sir Harold Stiles; however, the procedure is named for Dr. Wilhelm Ramstedt, who performs the surgery in 1911.[11]
- March – International Psychoanalytical Association established.
- March 20 – The first clinic for treatment of occupational diseases is opened in Milan (Italy). (The first in the United States will be established in 1915.)[12]
- May 18 – At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded, Henry H. Goddard introduces a system for classifying individuals with mental retardation based on intelligence quotient (IQ): moron for those with an IQ of 51–70, imbecile for those with an IQ of 26–50, and idiot for those with an IQ of 0-25.
- July 15 – Publication of the eighth edition of Emil Kraepelin's Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende und Arzte, naming Alzheimer's disease as a variety of dementia.[13]
- October (approx.) – Approximate date of origin of Manchurian plague, a form of pneumonic plague which by December is spreading through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.[14][15][16]
- Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that genes are located on chromosomes.
- Chicago cardiologist James B. Herrick makes the first published identification of sickle cells in the blood of a patient with anemia.[17]
- Platelets are first named by James Homer Wright.[18]
- Peyton Rous demonstrates that a malignant tumor can be transmitted by a virus (which becomes known as the Rous sarcoma virus, a retrovirus).[19][20]
- Hans Christian Jacobaeus of Sweden performs the first thoracoscopic diagnosis with a cystoscope.[21][22]
Technology
- January 12–13 – Lee De Forest conducts an experimental broadcast of part of a live performance of Tosca and, the next day, a performance with the participation of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso from the stage of Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.[23][24]
- February 17 – A patent for the first safety catch (firearms) is filed by the Browning Arms Company in the United States.[25]
- February 25 – Thomas Edison's "trolleyless street car", powered by storage batteries rather than by overhead electric wires, is publicly demonstrated on New York City's 29th Street horse car tracks.[26]
- March 28 – Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane, at Martigues, France.
- June 7 – William G. Allen of the Allen Manufacturing Company is granted a United States patent for a hex key.[27]
- October – First publication of infrared photographs, by American optical physicist Robert W. Wood in the Royal Photographic Society's Journal.
- December 3–18 – Georges Claude demonstrates the first modern neon light at the Paris Motor Show.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. George Owen Squier of the United States Army invents telephone carrier multiplexing.
- Completion of Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Paulinskill Viaduct on its Lackawanna Cut-Off, the world's largest reinforced concrete structure at this time, built under the supervision of Lincoln Bush, its chief engineer.[28]
Institutions
Awards
Births
- January 20 – Friederike Victoria Gessner, later Joy Adamson (murdered 1980), Austrian-born wildlife conservationist.[30]
- February 9 – Jacques Monod (died 1976), French biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
- February 13 – William Shockley (died 1989), American physicist.
- March 11 – Robert Havemann (died 1982), German chemist.
- May 3 – Helen M. Duncan (died 1971), American geologist and paleontologist
- May 12 – Dorothy Hodgkin (died 1994), British chemist.
- June 11 – Jacques Cousteau (died 1997), French oceanographer.
- July 16 – David Lack (died 1973), English ornithologist.
- August 18 – Pál Turán (died 1976), Hungarian mathematician.
- August 28 – C. Doris Hellman (died 1973), American historian of science.
- September 1 – Pierre Bézier (died 1999), French engineer.
- October 11 – Cahit Arf (died 1997), Turkish mathematician.
- October 27 – Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (died 2000), American chemical engineer.
- October 31 – Victor Rothschild (died 1990), British polymath.
- December 24 – Bill Pickering (died 2004), New Zealand-born head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Deaths
References
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- ^ University of Ottawa Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine meteorites database
- ^ Yeomans, Donald Keith (1998). "Great Comets in History". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
- ^ Ridpath, Ian (1985). "Through the comet's tail". Revised extracts from "A Comet Called Halley", published by Cambridge University Press in 1985. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
- ^ Astrophys. J. 33:410–417 (1911) "New Star on Milky Way", Washington Post, January 15, 1911, p. 47
- ^ Tokyo Kagaku Kaishi (1911)[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Salvarsan". Chemical & Engineering News. American Chemical Society. 2005. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- ^ Fahn, S. (2008). "The history of dopamine and levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease". Movement Disorders. 23 Suppl 3: S497–508. doi:10.1002/mds.22028. PMID 18781671. S2CID 45572523.
- ^ Nagel, Miriam C. (1982). "Frederick Soddy: From Alchemy to Isotopes". Journal of Chemical Education. 59 (9): 739–740. Bibcode:1982JChEd..59..739N. doi:10.1021/ed059p739.
- ^ Pesaran, M. Hashem (1987). "Econometrics". The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Vol. 2. pp. 8–22.
- ^ Bax, N. M. A.; et al. (2008). Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children. Springer. p. 281.
- ^ Fielding, H. Garrison (1917). An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data. W.B. Saunders Co. p. 775.
- ^ Berchtold, N. C.; Cotman, C. W. (1998). "Evolution in the conceptualization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Greco-Roman period to the 1960s". Neurobiology of Aging. 19 (3): 173–89. doi:10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9. PMID 9661992. S2CID 24808582.
- ^ "Recalling the 1910 Harbin Plague". Sina.com (in Chinese).
- ^ Gamsa, Mark (February 2006). "The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910–1911". Past & Present. 190 (1): 147–183. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtj001.
- ^ Goh, L. G.; Ho, T. M.; Phua, K. H. (January 1987). "Wisdom and Western Science: The Work of Dr Wu Lien-Teh". Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. Historical Milestones. 1 (1): 99–109. doi:10.1177/101053958700100123. PMID 3330665. S2CID 33328996.
- ^ Herrick, James B. (November 1910). "Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia". Archives of Internal Medicine. 6 (5): 517–521. doi:10.1001/archinte.1910.00050330050003.; Reprinted in Herrick, JB (2001). "Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia. 1910". Yale J Biol Med. 74 (3): 179–84. PMC 2588723. PMID 11501714.
- ^ Wright, J. H. (1910). "The histogenesis of blood platelets". Journal of Morphology. 21 (2): 263–78. doi:10.1002/jmor.1050210204. hdl:2027/hvd.32044107223588. S2CID 84877594.
- ^ Rous, Peyton (1910-09-01). "A Transmissible Avian Neoplasm (Sarcoma of the Common Fowl)". Journal of Experimental Medicine. 12 (5): 696–705. doi:10.1084/jem.12.5.696. PMC 2124810. PMID 19867354. Retrieved 2018-11-04.[dead link]
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 – Peyton Rous – Biography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ^ Jacobaeus, Hans Christian (1911). "The Possibilities for Performing Cystoscopy in Examinations of Serous Cavities". Münchner Medizinischen Wochenschrift.
- ^ Hatzinger, Martin; et al. (4 December 2006). "Hans Christian Jacobaeus: Inventor of Human Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy". Journal of Endourology. 20 (11): 848–850. doi:10.1089/end.2006.20.848. PMID 17144849.
- ^ Kane, Joseph Nathan (1981). Famous First Facts (4th ed.). New York: The H.W. Wilson Company. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-8242-0661-1.
- ^ "MetOpera Database". Metropolitan Opera.
- ^ U.S. Patent No. 984,519, granted on February 14, 1911. Hurst v. Glock, Inc. Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, 295 N.J. Super. 165 (1996).
- ^ "Test Edison Car On Crosstown Line" (PDF). The New York Times. 1910-02-26. p. 2.
- ^ U.S. patent 960,244
- ^ Thompson, Sanford E. (1915). Concrete in Railroad Construction: A Treatise ... Atlas Portland Cement Company. p. 36.
- ^ "This Day in SI History – March". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
- ^ Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1.