The year 1889 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Francis Galton publishes Natural Inheritance, a book which summarizes the results of a number of his papers and inspires
Karl Pearson,
Raphael Weldon and others to develop the mathematics and statistics of inheritance and biometry.[1]
An early method of
high-voltage direct current transmission as developed by
Swiss engineer
René Thury[10] is implemented commercially in
Italy by the Acquedotto de Ferrari-Galliera company, transmitting 630 kW at 14 kV DC over a distance of 120 km.[11][12]
^von Mering, Joseph; Minkowski, Oskar (1889). "Diabetes mellitus nach Pankreasextirpation". Centralblatt für klinische Medicin. 10 (23). Leipzig: 393–394.
^Vries, H. de (1889). Intracellulare Pangenese. Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. Translated in 1908 from German to English by
C. Stuart Gager as Intracellular Pangenesis. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1910.
The year 1889 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Francis Galton publishes Natural Inheritance, a book which summarizes the results of a number of his papers and inspires
Karl Pearson,
Raphael Weldon and others to develop the mathematics and statistics of inheritance and biometry.[1]
An early method of
high-voltage direct current transmission as developed by
Swiss engineer
René Thury[10] is implemented commercially in
Italy by the Acquedotto de Ferrari-Galliera company, transmitting 630 kW at 14 kV DC over a distance of 120 km.[11][12]
^von Mering, Joseph; Minkowski, Oskar (1889). "Diabetes mellitus nach Pankreasextirpation". Centralblatt für klinische Medicin. 10 (23). Leipzig: 393–394.
^Vries, H. de (1889). Intracellulare Pangenese. Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. Translated in 1908 from German to English by
C. Stuart Gager as Intracellular Pangenesis. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1910.