Technology
- July 3 - Ottmar Mergenthaler's Linotype machine is introduced at the New-York Tribune.
- September 21 - William Stanley, Jr. patents the induction coil in the United States, the first practical alternating current transformer device.
- October 31 - Opening of Dom Luís Bridge, Porto, a two-hinged double-deck arch bridge across the Douro River in Portugal designed by Téophile Seyrig. Its main span of 172 metres (564 ft) will remain the world's longest in iron.
- Gottlieb Daimler produces the first motorboat, Neckar, in Germany.
- Herbert Akroyd Stuart produces his first prototype heavy oil engines, in England.
- Schuyler Wheeler produces the first electric fan, in the United States.
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“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
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“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
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