Physics
- May 7 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates a radio receiver (containing a coherer) refined as a lightning detector to the Russian Physico-Chemical Society, recognized as the first practical application of electromagnetic waves.
- November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of electromagnetic radiation which he calls X-rays.
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