The year 1899 in science involved some significant events, listed below.

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Astronomy and space sciences

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  • March 18 – Phoebe, the ninth-known moon of the planet Saturn is discovered by U.S. astronomer William H. Pickering from analysis of photographic plates made by a Peruvian observatory seven months earlier, the first discovery of a satellite photographically.
  • April 21 – The nova V606 Aquilae is first observed from Earth as seen within the constellation Aquila. It fades within six months.
  • October 19 – 17-year-old Robert H. Goddard in Worcester, Massachusetts, receives his inspiration to develop a rocket capable of reaching outer space, after viewing his yard from high in a tree and imagining "how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars, and how it would look on a small scale, if sent up from the meadow at my feet."[1]
  • December 2 – During the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar System bodies occur. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction are Uranus (technically visible unaided in pollution-free skies), Ceres and Pallas.
  • The 80 cm refracting telescope is completed at Potsdam Observatory.

Biology

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Chemistry

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Computing

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  • December 31 – Retrospectively, day zero for dates in Microsoft Excel. This is to ensure backwards compatibility with Lotus 1-2-3, which had a bug misinterpreting 1900 as a leap year.[2][3][4]

Exploration

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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Paleontology

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  • July 4 – The most famous skeleton of a dinosaur ever found intact, a Diplodicus, is discovered at the Sheep Creek Quarry in the western United States near Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The expedition team, financed by Andrew Carnegie for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and led by William Harlow Reed, bestows the name "Dippy" on the Diplodicus carnegii, which becomes well known after Carnegie has plaster cast replicas made for donation to museums all over the world. These dinosaurs are estimated to have roamed in North America more than 152,000,000 years ago.[12]

Physics

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Psychology

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Technology

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Events

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  • January 29 – A lawyer for the estate of John W. Keely, an inventor who had persuaded investors in his Keely Motor Company that an automobile could be created that would operate from Keely's "induction resonance motion motor" which had achieved perpetual motion, reveals that the late Mr. Keely's motor has been a fraud, and that the widow knew nothing of it.[27]

Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Lehman, Milton (1988). Robert H. Goddard: Pioneer of Space Research. Da Capo Press. p. 16.
  2. ^ Porter, Remy (2019-02-05). "Set the Flux Capacitor for 12/30/1899". The Daily WTF. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  3. ^ helenclu (2022-07-22). "Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year - Office". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  4. ^ helenclu (2022-05-05). "Differences between the 1900 and the 1904 date system - Office". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  5. ^ Borchgrevink, C. E. (1901). First on the Antarctic Continent: being an account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900. London: Newnes.
  6. ^ Volkert, Klaus, ed. (2015). David Hilbert: Grundlagen der Geometrie. Springer. p. ix.
  7. ^ Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2005). Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940. Elsevier. p. 713.
  8. ^ Cartan, Élie (1899). "Sur certaines expressions différentielles et le problème de Pfaff" (PDF). Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure. Série 3 (in French). 16. Paris: Gauthier-Villars: 239–332. ISSN 0012-9593. JFM 30.0313.04. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  9. ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
  10. ^ "Aspirin". Milestones: Aspirin. German Patent and Trademark Office. 2022-10-18. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  11. ^ Lewenson, Sandra B. (2013). Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920. Routledge. p. 95.
  12. ^ Tschopp, Emanuel; et al. (2015). "A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)". PeerJ.
  13. ^ Andia, Gianfranco; Duroc, Yvan; Tedjini, Smail (2018-01-19). Non-Linearities in Passive RFID Systems: Third Harmonic Concept and Applications. Wiley. ISBN 9781119490739.
  14. ^ "Archives Biographies: Hertha Ayrton". Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
  15. ^ Huurdeman, Anton A. (2003). The Worldwide History of Telecommunications. Wiley. p. 215.
  16. ^ Desmond, Kevin (2016). "Jungner, Ernst Waldemar". Innovators in Battery Technology: Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists. McFarland Publishing. p. 116.
  17. ^ "World's first colour film footage viewed for first time". BBC News. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  18. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  19. ^ British Patent No. GB9418 granted March 24, 1900.
  20. ^ Friedman, Norman (2013). Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p. 18.
  21. ^ The History and Invention of the Paperclip.
  22. ^ U.S. Patent No. 629,286 granted June 2, 1900.
  23. ^ Veronico, Betty S. (2008). Images of America: Lighthouses of the Bay Area. Arcadia Publishing. p. 34.
  24. ^ Sweet, Frank W. (2000). The Evolution of Indirect Fire. Backintyme Publishing. pp. 28–33.
  25. ^ "Omnium Gatherum". Otago Daily Times. No. 11521. 6 September 1899. p. 6.
  26. ^ Henderson, Ron (February 2011). "Fire King". Vintage Spirit (103): 30–34.
  27. ^ Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G. (2015). Perpetual Motion. Adventures Unlimited Press. p. 146.
  28. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  29. ^ Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1.