Technology
- The first diesel-powered ships are launched, both for inland waters: Petite-Pierre in France, powered by Dyckhoff-built diesels, and the tanker Vandal in Russia, powered by Swedish-built diesels with an electrical transmission.
- Norwegian engineer Ægidius Elling builds the first gas turbine to generate power, using a centrifugal compressor.
- Laminated glass is invented by Edouard Benedictus.
- Baker valve gear for steam locomotives is first patented in the United States.
- The Lune Valley boiler is patented by John G. A. Kitchen and Ludlow Perkins.
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“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)