Physics
- Albert Einstein publishes his conclusions on capillarity.
- Owen Richardson describes the phenomenon in thermionic emission which gives rise to Richardson's Law.
- Ivan Yarkovsky describes the Yarkovsky effect, a thermal force acting on rotating bodies in space, in a pamphlet on "The density of light ether and the resistance it offers to motion" published in Bryansk.
- December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, the letter "S" in Morse.
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