World Events

Posted in 1895

 

  • The first cinema screeningsFirst public showing of films in Paris, the beginnings of cinema.
  • Jameson Raid into Transvaal is defeated by the Boers against the British. Germany announces its support for the Boers.
  • End of the war between China and Japan which takes Formosa and Korea.
  • German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays: he finds that when cathode rays impinge on the end of the evacuated tube in which they are produced, other rays are emitted. Roentgen later identifies the main properties of these new "X"-rays and their extraordinary powers of penetration. He is awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.
  • Guglielmo Marconi Marconi invents radiotelegraphy undertaking the first crucial experiment demonstrating that radio transmission is feasible. In September Guglielmo Marconi carries out the first broadcast (of the letter "S") - from his lab in Villa Grifone to the hill opposite.
  • Gillette invents the safety razor.