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Science on the 30th of November 1884 in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1884 genus	science	genus (biology) The genus Plasmodium is described by Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli.	0
30 Nov 1884 bacterium	science	bacterium (biology) The bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) is discovered by Theodor Escherich.	0
30 Nov 1884 Carl Auer von Welsbach	science	Carl Auer von Welsbach (chemistry) Carl Auer von Welsbach patents his first incandescent gas mantle.	0
30 Nov 1884 Eugene Goldstein	science	Eugene Goldstein (chemistry) Eugene Goldstein names the cathode ray, later discovered to be composed of electrons, and the canal ray, later discovered to be positive hydrogen ions that had been stripped of their electrons in a cathode ray tube. These would later be named protons.	0
30 Nov 1884 Eduard Suess	science	Eduard Suess (earth sciences) Eduard Suess begins publication in Vienna of his Das Antlitz der Erde setting out his theory of eustasy, the existence of the former supercontinent Gondwana, and his pioneering concepts in ecology.	0
30 Nov 1884 Georges Gilles de la Tourette	science	Georges Gilles de la Tourette (medicine) Georges Gilles de la Tourette publishes an account of nine patients with what will become known as Tourette syndrome.	0
30 Nov 1884 Johann Balmer	science	Johann Balmer (physics) Johann Balmer publishes an empirical mathematical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.	0
30 Nov 1884 Hermann Ebbinghaus	science	Hermann Ebbinghaus (psychology) Hermann Ebbinghaus publishes Über das Gedächtnis ("On Memory", later translated as Memory: a Contribution to Experimental Psychology).	0
30 Nov 1884 Karl Benz	science	Karl Benz (technology) Karl Benz produces the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, regarded as the first automobile (patented and publicly launched the following January).	0
30 Nov 1884 John Kemp Starley	science	John Kemp Starley (technology) John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle, regarded as the first practical modern bicycle.	0
30 Nov 1884 gyrocompass	science	gyrocompass (technology) The first, not yet practical, form of gyrocompass is patented by Marinus Gerardus van den Bos.	0
30 Nov 1884 food mixer	science	food mixer (technology) Rufus Eastman patents the first known electric food mixer.	0
30 Nov 1884 Home Insurance Building	science	Home Insurance Building (technology) Completion of the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. With ten floors and a fireproof weight-bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first skyscraper.	0
30 Nov 1884 Sway Tower	science	Sway Tower (technology) Completion of Sway Tower in Hampshire, England, designed by Andrew Peterson using concrete made with Portland cement. It remains the world's tallest non-reinforced concrete structure.	0
30 Nov 1884 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz	0
30 Nov 1884 Wollaston Medal	science	Wollaston Medal (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: George Busk	0

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