Technology
- March 8 – Everett Horton of Connecticut patents a fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes.
- March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs.
- June 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a U.S. patent for his punched card calculator.
- July 19 – Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first U.S. patent for his comptometer.
- August – Anna Connelly patents the fire escape.
- November 8 – Emile Berliner is granted a U.S. patent for his Gramophone.
- Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invents the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass.
- Alfred Yarrow completes the first practical high-pressure water-tube Yarrow boiler, for a torpedo boat.
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