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  • Switzerland
    1879
    Chocolate

    Conching Machine

    Switzerland
    1879

    In 1879, the texture and taste of chocolate were further improved when Rodolphe Lindt invented the conching machine.




  • France
    1879
    Statue of Liberty

    Viollet-le-Duc

    France
    1879

    The head and arm had been built with assistance from Viollet-le-Duc, who fell ill in 1879. He soon died, leaving no indication of how he intended to transition from the copper skin to his proposed masonry pier.




  • Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
    Friday Jan 17, 1879
    Incandescent light bulb

    Swan gave a working demonstration

    Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
    Friday Jan 17, 1879

    Swan gave a working demonstration at The Newcastle Chemical Society meeting on 17 January 1879.




  • Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
    Monday Feb 3, 1879
    Incandescent light bulb

    The First Street in the world to be lit by an Incandescent Lightbulb

    Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
    Monday Feb 3, 1879

    The first street in the world to be lit by an incandescent lightbulb was Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. It was lit by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879.




  • Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire, Germany
    Friday Mar 14, 1879
    Albert Einstein

    Birth

    Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire, Germany
    Friday Mar 14, 1879

    Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879.




  • Maribor, Slovenia
    Mar, 1879
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla's father went to Maribor to beg his son to return home, but he refused

    Maribor, Slovenia
    Mar, 1879

    In March 1879, Tesla's father went to Maribor to beg his son to return home, but he refused. Nikola suffered a nervous breakdown around the same time.




  • Croatia
    Friday Apr 18, 1879
    Nikola Tesla

    Father's death

    Croatia
    Friday Apr 18, 1879

    On 17 April 1879, Milutin Tesla died at the age of 60 after contracting an unspecified illness. During that year, Tesla taught a large class of students in his old school in Gospić.


  • New Jersey, U.S.
    Wednesday Oct 22, 1879
    Incandescent light bulb

    Edison's first Successful Test

    New Jersey, U.S.
    Wednesday Oct 22, 1879

    After many experiments, first with carbon in the early 1880s and then with platinum and other metals, in the end Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test was on 22 October 1879, and lasted 13.5 hours.


  • New Jersey, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 4, 1879
    Incandescent light bulb

    Edison filed for a US Patent for an Electric Lamp using a Carbon Filament or Strip Coiled and connected to platina contact wires

    New Jersey, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 4, 1879

    Edison continued to improve this design and by 4 November 1879, filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires." Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including using "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways," Edison and his team later discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last more than 1200 hours.


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