
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 […]