The year 1878 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Conservation
Exploration
Geology
Mathematics
Medicine
- Ádám Politzer publishes Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde, a major otology textbook.[8]
- Dentists Act in the United Kingdom limits the title of "dentist" and "dental surgeon" to qualified and registered practitioners.[9]
Meteorology
- February 11 – The first weekly weather report is published in the United Kingdom.
Paleontology
Technology
Institutions
Awards
Births
- January 1 – A. K. Erlang, Danish mathematician (died 1929)
- January 7 – Samuel James Cameron, Scottish obstetrician (died 1959)
- January 25 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (died 1975)
- February 5 – André Citroën, French automobile manufacturer (died 1935)
- February 8 – Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (died 1965)
- February 28 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (died 1929)
- March 4 – Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (died 1947)
- April 16 – Owen Thomas Jones, Welsh geologist (died 1967)
- June 3 – Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (died 1946)
- June 12 – James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (died 1927)
- July 12 – Peeter Põld, Estonian politician and pedagogical scientist (died 1930)
- August 28 – George Whipple, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1976)
- September 5 – Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (died 1913)
- September 13 – Matilde Moisant, American pilot (died 1964)
- November 8 – Dorothea Bate, Welsh-born paleozoologist (died 1951)
- November 26 – Marshall "Major" Taylor, American cyclist (died 1932)
- December 25 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race driver and automobile builder (died 1941)
- December 25 – Joseph Schenck, Russian-born film executive (died 1962)
Deaths
- January 18 – William Stokes, Irish physician (born 1804)
- January 18 – Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (born 1788)
- January 19 – Henri Victor Regnault, French physical chemist (born 1810)
- February 8 – Elias Magnus Fries, Swedish botanist (born 1794)
- February 10 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist (born 1813)
- February 26 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (born 1818)
- March 16 – William Banting, English undertaker and dietician (b. c.1796)
- May 13 – Joseph Henry, American physicist (born 1797)
- June 6 – Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (born 1790)
- July 23 – Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian pathologist (born 1804)
- September 25 – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (born 1822)
References
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- ↑ Rosen, Rebecca J. (2012-10-26). [www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/scientists-recover-the-sounds-of-19th-century-music-and-laughter-from-the-oldest-playable-american-recording/264147/#.UJFzCnboreA.facebook Scientists Recover the Sounds of 19th-Century Music and Laughter From the Oldest Playable American Recording]. The Atlantic. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
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