1890

Events 1890s – Dracula published

1897 Bram Stoker’s Dracula published  Events Second Boer War (1899–1902) 1890: The cardboard box is invented. 1892: John Froelich develops and constructs the first gasoline/petrol-powered tractor. 1894: Karl Elsener invents the Swiss Army knife. 1894: First gramophone record. 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen identifies x-rays. 1895: Volleyball is invented. 1886: Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed. 1890: First use of the electric chair as a method of execution. Science Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin independently suggested that human CO2 emissions might cause global warming. 1894: Argon was discovered by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay. 1895: Helium was discovered to exist on the Earth by William Ramsay, 27 years after first being detected spectrographically on the Sun in 1868. 1895: X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen. 1896: A […]

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1897 Diesel engine first tested

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel; both are named after him.  The diesel engine, named after him is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-called compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with engines using spark plug-ignition of the air-fuel mixture, such as a petrol engine (gasoline engine) or a gas engine (using a gaseous fuel like natural gas […]

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