The year 1867 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Events

• April - First clear recorded use of the word science in English with its modern usage as restricted to the natural and physical sciences (by Catholic theologian and mathematician W. G. Ward writing in the London-published Dublin Review).^[1]

Biology

• Gorse naturalised in New Zealand and soon becomes the worst invasive weed.
• Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener proposes his dual theory of lichens.^[2]
• Rosa 'La France', the first Hybrid Tea rose, is cultivated by Jean-Baptiste Guillot.^[3][4]

Chemistry

• Henry Enfield Roscoe isolates vanadium.^[5]
• Charles-Adolphe Wurtz synthesizes neurine.

Economics

• Publication of the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx.

January 1: Roebling Suspension Bridge is longest.

February 17: Suez Canal in use.

Geology

• At Fountain Point, Michigan, an artesian water spring begins to gush continuously.^[6]
• Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel established in the United States under the directorship of Clarence King.

History of science

• Assyriologist George Smith discovers an inscription recording a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan on British Museum Tablet K51, which he is able to link to 15 June 763 BC, the cornerstone of ancient Near Eastern chronology.^[7]

Medicine

• March 16 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
• July 17 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
• Yellow fever kills 3093 in New Orleans.
• Henry Maudsley publishes The Physiology and Pathology of Mind.

Technology

• January 1 - The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, its 1,057-foot (322 m) main span making it the longest single-span bridge in the world by a margin of 14 m at this time. It will be renamed after its designer, John A. Roebling, in 1983.
• February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
• July 2 - First elevated railroad in the United States begins service in New York.
• Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.
• Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

Awards

• Copley Medal: Karl Ernst von Baer
• Wollaston Medal: George Poulett Scrope

Births

• January 11 - Edward B. Titchener (died 1927), English-born structuralist psychologist.
• April 16 - Wilbur Wright (died 1912), American pioneer aviator.
• November 7 - Maria Sk odowska, later Marie Curie (died 1934), Polish-born physicist.
• November 26 - Emil von Dungern (died 1961), German serologist.
• December 1 - Ignacy Mo cicki (died 1946), chemist and President of Poland.

Deaths

• August 25 - Michael Faraday (born 1791), English chemist and physicist.

References

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