Technology
- August 30 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the electrically powered vacuum cleaner in the U.K.
- November 30 - Frank Hornby of Liverpool is granted a U.K. patent for the construction toy that will become Meccano.
- December 3 - King C. Gillette files a U.S. patent application for his design of safety razor utilizing thin, disposable blades of stamped steel.
- Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin in New Zealand.
- Theodore Rall patents his design of rolling lift bridge.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)