Overview of the events of 1904 in science
The year 1904 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
July 4 – Piero Ginori Conti demonstrates the use of geothermal power to generate electricity, at Larderello in Italy. July 23 – A continuous track tractor is patented by David Roberts of Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham in England.[ 8] November 16 – John Ambrose Fleming patents the first thermionic vacuum tube , the two-electrode diode ("oscillation valve" or Fleming valve ).[ 9] November 24 – A continuous track tractor is demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company in the United States. The first diesel engined submarine , the Z , is built in France. The Heckelphone variety of oboe is invented by Wilhelm Heckel and his sons. The sleeve valve is invented by Charles Yale Knight. The turbine -powered Bliss-Leavitt torpedo , designed by Frank McDowell Leavitt and manufactured by the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn , is put into service by the United States Navy.[ 10] Lucien Bull produces the first successful chronophotography (of insect flight), working in France.[ 11] Rue Franklin Apartments, Paris, are completed by Auguste Perret and his brother Gustave, an early example of an exposed reinforced concrete frame building.[ 12] January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray Carson (died 1990 ), American-born physician , pioneer in family planning . January 26 – Ancel Keys (died 2004 ), American nutritionist . March 13 – René Dumont (died 2001 ), French agronomist . March 20 – B. F. Skinner (died 1990 ), American behavioral psychologist . April 11 – Arthur Mourant (died 1994 ), Jersiais hematologist . April 22 – J. Robert Oppenheimer (died 1967 ), American physicist . June 3 – Charles R. Drew (died 1950 ), African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion . July 5 – Ernst Mayr (died 2005 ), German-born evolutionary biologist . August 5 – Kenneth V. Thimann (died 1997 ), English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist known for his studies of plant hormones . August 17 – Cornelis Simon Meijer (died 1974 ), Dutch mathematician . August 28 – Secondo Campini (died 1980 ), Italian jet pioneer. August 29 – Werner Forssmann (died 1979 ), German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. November 11 – J. H. C. Whitehead (died 1960 ), British mathematician . Sven Sømme (died 1961 ), Norwegian ichthyologist and resistance worker. March 7 – Ferdinand André Fouqué (born 1828 ), French geologist , petrologist and volcanologist . May 10 – Henry Morton Stanley (born 1841 ), Welsh -born explorer and journalist . July 3 – John Bell Hatcher (born 1861 ), American paleontologist . September 24 – Niels Ryberg Finsen (born 1860 ), Icelandic /Faroese /Danish physician and scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . October 7 – Isabella Bird (born 1831 ), British explorer , writer, photographer and naturalist . October 21 – Isabelle Eberhardt (born 1877 ), Swiss –Algerian explorer. ^ Asimov, Isaac . Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2nd ed.). ^ "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire". ^ Addison, Paul S. (1997). Fractals and Chaos: An Illustrated Course . Bristol: Institute of Physics. p. 19. ISBN 0-7503-0400-6 . ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know . London: Quercus. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8 . ^ Zermelo, Ernst (1904). "Beweis, dass jede Menge wohlgeordnet werden kann" (reprint) . Mathematische Annalen . 59 (4): 514–16. doi :10.1007/BF01445300 . S2CID 124189935 . ^ Cabot, Richard C. (1904). "The relation of alcohol to arterioscleroisis" . Journal of the American Medical Association . 43 (12): 774–775. doi :10.1001/jama.1904.92500120002a . Retrieved 2019-10-04 . ^ Reported by him in Pamiętnik Towarzystwa Lekarskiego Warszawskiego . Bartnik, W. (December 2003). "Inflammatory bowel disease – Polish contribution" . Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology . 54 (S3). Kraków: Polish Physiological Society: 205–210. PMID 15075474 . Retrieved 2008-03-28 . [permanent dead link ] ^ British Patent No. 16,345. Robinson, Peter (2003). Lincoln's Excavators: The Ruston years 1875–1930 . Nynehead: Roundoak. ISBN 1-871565-42-1 . ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 978-1-85986-343-5 . ^ Newpower, Anthony (2006). Iron Men And Tin Fish: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo During World War II . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 18. ISBN 0-275-99032-X . ^ Reported by him in "Motional mechanism of the insect wing", Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences 138 :590–592 (29 February); "Application of the electric spark to the chrono-photography of rapid motions", Comptes rendus 138 :155–157 (21 March); "Chronophotography of rapid motions", Bulletin de la Société Philomathiclue (Paris) (June 11); Synthesis in chronophotography, Bulletin de la Société Philomathiclue (November 12). ^ "Rue Franklin Apartments" . GreatBuildings . Retrieved 2012-05-29 . ^ Rothschild, Walter (1904-05-20). "Microgoura , n. gen" . Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . 14 (CVII): 77–78. Retrieved 2015-09-29 .