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Science on the 30th of November 1885 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1885 Dorothea Klumpke	science	Dorothea Klumpke (astronomy) Dorothea Klumpke takes up a post at the Paris Observatory, becoming Director of the Bureau of Measurements.	0
30 Nov 1885 Dugald Clerk	science	Dugald Clerk (history of science) Dugald Clerk publishes The Gas and Oil Engine in London.	0
30 Nov 1885 English	science	English (mathematics) English mathematician Rev. William Allen Whitworth is the first to use ordered Bell numbers to count the number of weak orderings of a set.	0
30 Nov 1885 Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease	science	Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (medicine) The classic descriptions of Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease are published by Jean-Martin Charcot and his pupil Pierre Marie in Paris and by Howard H. Tooth in London.	0
30 Nov 1885 Richard von Krafft-Ebing	science	Richard von Krafft-Ebing (medicine) Dr Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie ("Sexual Psychopathy: a Clinical-Forensic Study") is published in Stuttgart.	0
30 Nov 1885 Thomas Allinson	science	Thomas Allinson (medicine) Dr Thomas Allinson's popular book A System of Hygienic Medicine is published in England, promoting health through natural diet and exercise rather than orthodox medicine.	0
30 Nov 1885 Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women	science	Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women (medicine) Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women is founded by Dr Sophia Jex-Blake.	0
30 Nov 1885 Gottlieb Daimler	science	Gottlieb Daimler (technology) Gottlieb Daimler produces the first motorboat, Neckar, in Germany.	0
30 Nov 1885 Auguste Mustel	science	Auguste Mustel (technology) Auguste Mustel invents the celesta.	0
30 Nov 1885 Herbert Akroyd Stuart	science	Herbert Akroyd Stuart (technology) Herbert Akroyd Stuart produces his first prototype heavy oil engines, in England.	0
30 Nov 1885 Schuyler Wheeler	science	Schuyler Wheeler (technology) Schuyler Wheeler produces the first electric fan, in the United States.	0
30 Nov 1885 Copley Medal	science	Copley Medal (awards) Copley Medal: Franz Neumann	0
30 Nov 1885 Wollaston Medal	science	Wollaston Medal (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: Alfred Des Cloizeaux	0

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