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30 Nov 1902
![]() vampire squid |
vampire squid (biology) The type specimen of the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is described by Carl Chun. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Fauna and Flora International |
Fauna and Flora International (biology) Fauna and Flora International is founded as the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire by a group of British naturalists and American statesmen in Africa. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Johnston Laboratories |
Johnston Laboratories (biology) Formal opening of the Johnston Laboratories at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Peter Cooper Hewitt |
Peter Cooper Hewitt (chemistry) Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the mercury-vapour lamp. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet |
Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (chemistry) Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet invents chromatography, an important analytic technique. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() International Committee of Atomic Weights |
International Committee of Atomic Weights (chemistry) The International Committee of Atomic Weights publishes the inaugural atomic weights report. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Fast Fourier Transform |
Fast Fourier Transform (mathematics) Fast Fourier Transform algorithm presented by Carle David Tolmé Runge. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Edmund Georg Hermann Landau |
Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (mathematics) Edmund Georg Hermann Landau gives considerably simpler proof of the prime number theorem. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Ernest Fourneau |
Ernest Fourneau (medicine) Ernest Fourneau synthesizes and patents Amylocaine, the first synthetic local anesthetic, under the name Stovaine at the Pasteur Institute. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Willem Einthoven |
Willem Einthoven (medicine) Willem Einthoven discovers electrocardiography (ECG/EKG) |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Richard von Krafft-Ebing |
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (medicine) The 12th and final edition of Dr Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie ("Sexual Psychopathy: a Clinical-Forensic Study") published during the author's lifetime introduces the term paedophilia erotica. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() George Darwin |
George Darwin (physics) George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Prosper-René Blondlot |
Prosper-René Blondlot (physics) Prosper-René Blondlot claims to have detected N rays. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() diesel |
diesel (technology) The first diesel-powered ships are launched, both for inland waters: Petite-Pierre in France, powered by Dyckhoff-built diesels, and the tanker Vandal in Russia, powered by Swedish-built diesels with an electrical transmission. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Norwegian |
Norwegian (technology) Norwegian engineer Ægidius Elling builds the first gas turbine to generate power, using a centrifugal compressor. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Laminated glass |
Laminated glass (technology) Laminated glass is invented by Edouard Benedictus. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Baker valve gear |
Baker valve gear (technology) Baker valve gear for steam locomotives is first patented in the United States. |
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30 Nov 1902
![]() Lune Valley boiler |
Lune Valley boiler (technology) The Lune Valley boiler is patented by John G. A. Kitchen and Ludlow Perkins. |