1896 in science

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The year 1896 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Chemistry

Svante Arrhenius formulates the "greenhouse law" and becomes the first person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion processes are large enough to cause global warming through the greenhouse effect.

The prime number theorem on the distribution of primes is proved.^[1]
Charles L. Dodgson publishes the first part of Symbolic Logic.
Karl Pearson publishes significant contributions to correlation and regression.^[1]

Ernest Duchesne discovers the antibiotic properties of penicillin^[2] as part of his doctoral research, but this is not followed up at this time.

March 1 – French physicist Henri Becquerel discovers the principle of radioactive decay when he exposes photographic plates to uranium.

Thomas Ellis Brown produces an innovative design of rolling bascule bridge for Brooklyn.^[8]
Jesse W. Reno produces the first working escalator ("inclined elevator"), installed at Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Gottlieb Daimler produces the first truck.^[9]
Captain Neville Bertie-Clay, Superintendent of the British Army arsenal at Dum Dum in Bengal, invents an expanding bullet.
December 11 – William Preece introduces Guglielmo Marconi's work in wireless telegraphy to the general public at a lecture, "Telegraphy without Wires", at the Toynbee Hall in London.

^ ^a ^b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
^ Duchesne 1897, Antagonism between molds and bacteria. An English translation by Michael Witty. Fort Myers, 2013. ASIN B00E0KRZ0E and B00DZVXPIK.
^ Sgantzos, M.; Tsoucalas, G.; Laios, K.; Androutsos, G. (2014). "The physician who first applied radiotherapy, Victor Despeignes, on 1896" (PDF). Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 17 (1): 45–6. doi:10.1967/s002449910117 (inactive 2016-11-05). PMID 24563880.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2016 (link)
^ Marfan, Antoine (1896). "Un cas de déformation congénitale des quartre membres, plus prononcée aux extrémitiés, caractérisée par l'allongement des os avec un certain degré d'amincissement". Bulletins et memoires de la Société medicale des hôspitaux de Paris. 13 (3rd series): 220–226.
^ "Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
^ "Marfan Syndrome". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
^ Booth, Jeremy (1977). "A short history of blood pressure measurement". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 70 (11): 793–9. PMC 1543468. PMID 341169.
^ "Notable Bridge Designers and Builders of Connecticut". Connecticut's Historic Highway Bridges. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
^ "Truck History". About.com. Retrieved 2011-05-28.