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Overview of the events of 1919 in science
The year 1919 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy Chemistry History of science Mathematics Medicine Physics Psychology Technology First crossings of the Atlantic Ocean by air.
May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read makes the first transatlantic flight , from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Newfoundland and the Azores .
June 14–15 – A Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight , from St. John's, Newfoundland , to Clifden , Ireland .
July 2–6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune , Scotland , to Mineola, New York .
May 29 – Charles Strite files a United States patent for the pop-up electric bread toaster .[8]
October 17 – Dr. Frank Conrad begins broadcasting from 8XK in Pittsburgh (United States).
Lee De Forest files his first United States patent for the Phonofilm sound-on-film process.United States firearms designer John Browning finalizes the design of the M1919 Browning machine gun .United States firearms designer John T. Thompson finalizes the design of the Thompson submachine gun .
A United States patent for the self-folding shirt collar is obtained by the Phillips-Jones Corporation . Awards Births Deaths January 15 – Rosa Luxemburg (born 1871 ), Polish Marxist theorist , philosopher , economist , anti-war activist , and revolutionary socialist .
February 19 – Frederick DuCane Godman (born 1834 ), English lepidopterist , entomologist and ornithologist .
April 4 – Sir William Crookes (born 1832 ), English chemist and physicist .
April 17 – Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (born 1827 ), German obstetrician .
May 8 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson (born 1848 ), American inventor.
c. June 1 – Caroline Still Anderson (born 1848 ), African American physician, educator and activist.
June 30 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (born 1842 ), English Nobel Prize -winning physicist .
July 15 – Emil Fischer (born 1852 ), German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (suicide ).
July 21 – Gustaf Retzius (born 1842 ), Swedish anatomist .
August 8 – Ernst Haeckel (born 1834 ), German zoologist .
August 23 – Augustus George Vernon Harcourt (born 1834), English chemist.
November 23 – Henry Gantt (born 1861 ), American project engineer .
December 16 – Julia Lermontova (born 1846 ), Russian chemist.
December 29 – Sir William Osler (born 1849 ), Canadian-born physician . References
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